- Dec 29, 2002
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Started when my computer froze earlier. I booted back into windows and it was in 800x600 (usual is 1680x1050) and not detecting any video drivers. Actually, in device manager it showed my video card with a 'caution' mark next to it. Said something about the registry not being free enough or some junk. Anyways I uninstalled my video drivers again, reboot, and reinstalled the same drivers I just previously tried to install. After that, I boot up and video settings were all back to normal, and the video card was detected. Glad that's over. But wait...no sound. Shutdown...make sure soundcard is still in tight, thinking maybe it got rattled around while I was checking out the video card. Then I boot up again and this time, back to 800x600, and still no sound 
- Now it's not detecting either the sound card or video card.
Now all I can find in my device manager is little 'caution' symbols under the 'System devices' tree by "Intel(R) G33/G31/P35 Express Chipset PCI Express Root Port", P35 being my motherboard model number. In the properties it says "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)". There is also the same caution by "Intel(R) ICH9 Family PCI Express Root Port 5"
Anyways, it all points to bad news. Maybe my motherboard is on it's last leg? I don't know. Also, everytime I bootup it freezes for about 15 seconds on the first screen that shows up during the bootup. Hoping it will all blow over but it seems very unlikely at this point.
My System:
Intel E7200 Wolfdale Dual Core processor @ 3.4 ghz
BFG Tech ES SERIES ES-800 800W Continuous Power supply
GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L
4GB Corsair DOMINATOR (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
22" CHIMEI CMV 221D-NBC Black LCD Monitor
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 video card
Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS
Vista 64
- Now it's not detecting either the sound card or video card.Now all I can find in my device manager is little 'caution' symbols under the 'System devices' tree by "Intel(R) G33/G31/P35 Express Chipset PCI Express Root Port", P35 being my motherboard model number. In the properties it says "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)". There is also the same caution by "Intel(R) ICH9 Family PCI Express Root Port 5"
Anyways, it all points to bad news. Maybe my motherboard is on it's last leg? I don't know. Also, everytime I bootup it freezes for about 15 seconds on the first screen that shows up during the bootup. Hoping it will all blow over but it seems very unlikely at this point.
My System:
Intel E7200 Wolfdale Dual Core processor @ 3.4 ghz
BFG Tech ES SERIES ES-800 800W Continuous Power supply
GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L
4GB Corsair DOMINATOR (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
22" CHIMEI CMV 221D-NBC Black LCD Monitor
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 video card
Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS
Vista 64
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