Help in booting win XP, won't even do it in safe mode

[Markfw]

So I changed out my video card from a 660ti (old) to an ancient GTS250, since I only keep this box for software that doesn;t need the GPU power, but must run XP. So in safe mode it looks like its booting,booted, but just a very light very small blue bar at the top of the screen. Doesn;t safe mode load NO drivers ?

Any idea how to get it to boot ? repair install ?

 

[Markfw]

Repair install doesn;t do it either. I guess I have to put the 660ti back in

 

[Insert_Nickname]

Safe mode loads a very basic SVGA driver. I can't imagine anything could be incompatible with that.

There might be remnants of the presumably newer 660 driver, that doesn't work correctly with the older 250. I'd put in the 660, then thoroughly clean out the driver (might have to use DDU), shutdown. Then put in the 250. See if that helps.

Or you may have a bad card in the 250, but it seems unlikely since you're past the bios boot screen...

 

[JackMDS]

If video does not an issue best thing to do is to get 8400GS.

It is king=d of a general use Video card. Goes bellow $20 on ebay.

 

[Markfw]

OK, so I put the 660ti back in, no problem. Then I uninstalled all drivers. Then I used DDU (driver cleaner) Then put the gts 250 back in. Same screen (a small 1/8th at the top of the screen), so I tried a GTX9800+ (should be the same thing) same result. Then I found an Nvidia Quadro K4000. Boots fine into windows, drivers installing.... Very odd.

 

[UsandThem]

OK, so I put the 660ti back in, no problem. Then I uninstalled all drivers. Then I used DDU (driver cleaner) Then put the gts 250 back in. Same screen (a small 1/8th at the top of the screen), so I tried a GTX9800+ (should be the same thing) same result. Then I found an Nvidia Quadro K4000. Boots fine into windows, drivers installing.... Very odd.

Though rare, sometimes certain components just don't want to place nice with others. I remember I had one of those LS-120 drives (the floppy drive replacement that never took off), and I just couldn't get it to work in my PC. I sold it to a friend, and he installed it and it worked fine in his PC.

 

[Markfw]

Though rare, sometimes certain components just don't want to place nice with others. I remember I had one of those LS-120 drives (the floppy drive replacement that never took off), and I just couldn't get it to work in my PC. I sold it to a friend, and he installed it and it worked fine in his PC.

I did see on the GTX9800+ that I have a screen from the LCD monitor that said "75.4 mhz 60 mhz out of range" or something like that

 

[ninaholic37]

Curious if Windows 98SE would work on that. If it does, you can then upgrade 98SE to Windows 2000, see if it still works, then upgrade from 2000 to XP, and see if it still works.

If 98SE doesn't work, you can try just booting into the MS-DOS 7.1 included with it and see if DOS GUI apps work.