Possible driver issue.

ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

Ok boys...this is a good one.

Is there a manual driver boot for XP?

My roommates PIII was in a crappy case, with a crappy broken fan, and a crappy PSU

So, i transferred it to a NOT so crappy case....with a NOT so crappy fan and PSU

However, now when i turn it on....it gets to the XP Prof welcome screen then reboots.....over and over again. It boots into safe mode without a hitch.

Only hardware config changes were.....pulled out modem....no need for it. Changed drives to master and slave as opposed to CS (the problem happened before i did this).....and the PSU

Event log tells me nothing....the crash happens before the logger loads.....so i want to boot driver by driver to determine which is causing this.

Any clues?
_________________

Google · Sponsor

2old2care · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject:

Are you using a different monitor? I ran into that the other day for the first time...I didn't believe it....Worked with my bench monitor but not with 2Y's.
I had to go back to one older version video driver, and it was fine.
_________________
.
Liquid-Cooled Q9450 and an EeePC
.

ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

nope...same monitor

and VGA mode didnt work either....its not the vid driver
_________________

Ham_fisT · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 4:16 pm Post subject:

is it an OEM compy, that could have issues with proprietary PSU connections?

try it with the old PSU??
_________________
Yeah....... ok

fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

^^^ what he said. What brand of compy is it?
_________________
Big enough to scare you

2old2care · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:30 pm Post subject:

Have you tried putting the modem back in? Perhaps it has a "strange" driver that needs the hardware "uninstalled" so it doesn't make a driver call.
Or something similar involving the modem, since this is the only hardware change.
_________________
.
Liquid-Cooled Q9450 and an EeePC
.

ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

it was a built machine...not oem....but worth a shot....

i DID put the modem back in....and brought it all back to original config minus the PSU and still...nothing
_________________

2old2care · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:01 pm Post subject:

Got a spare HDD laying around...if so, try reloading xp on it, you'll prolly find the hosed hardware straight away.
Don't suppose it would be chipset drivers getting weird on ya....like an old via setup that needs updating.
_________________
.
Liquid-Cooled Q9450 and an EeePC
.

ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

i really think its software, guys......

is there a manual step by step driver init for xp?
_________________

[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:38 pm Post subject:

how about using safe mode to uninstall all the drivers and start fresh from there?
_________________
I tweaked and it tweaked back! So I Tweaked some more!

"Barney is like the Michael Jackson of PBS." - James Tybeerious

Ham_fisT · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject:

WORD
_________________
Yeah....... ok