Problem with gfx card and/or motherbord!?

[Officerdown]

When I restart it won?t load windows. Depending on 'its' mood it will go to a black screen that says, "No cable connected to the gfx card, see 'getting started' manual". Other times it will go to the screen where I have to select if I want to boot in safe mode with or w/o networking, or regular windows. Other times it will say "Over clocking failed" then something about the BIOS.

This just started a few weeks ago... I think about the time I download an updated driver for my gfx card (ATI RADION X800); however, sense then I put in an older driver... it didn't fix the problem.

If I want to boot windows, I generally have to restart it a few times for it to work. Then when it does work and windows is loaded the "found new hardware wizard" pops up.

My computer is not over clocked and the cables are connected correctly.

 

[speckedhoncho]

I haven't overclocked in a while, but it could be that the ATI driver version you have is out of date.

When I upgraded my video card, my drivers and BIOS settings were fine until I performed a Windows Update. Then I have kernel meltdowns and after uninstalling the driver and restarting windows would boot into safe graphics mode; after reinstalling drivers, I entered a loop of uninstalling and reinstalling until I went into the BIOS and set my AGP Aperture size to a correct value.

Have you tried ATI's latest drivers? I'm not sure how much your Windows as updated itself, but security or middleware interfaces that video drivers have to deal cause a lot of the problems; fortunately, video card makers can spot these errors. Unfortunately, it takes time for the updates to be released.

 

[Officerdown]

I changed the drivers... I thought that might be part of the problem.

This sucks!