Urgent problem with Herc9800Pro! Please look if you can help

[alexdiablo]

Hi there!
I was so happy when i got my Herc 9800Pro today... I immediately deleted the nvidia drivers, turned the computer off and put it in...

when windows came back up though it gave me serious errors ("user profile not saveable or readable or whatever")
windows error, you know.. you never understand them

i thought: alright, just do a quick re-install
so thats what i did... and if i would have disconnected my other drives(using raid for windows) the setup wouldn't have wiped my whole ftp and gentoo linux drive since it was bitching about not being the primary os...

anyways here comes the problem:

Always when i re-install and put the drivers on my system (nforce2 drivers and then the catalyst, no matter which way)
i reboot and get the same error: ("profile not saveable.. try to save somewhere else" and "error in C:\$Mfat, G:\$Mfat.. basically all drives) so it hangs right before the welcome screen

i can boot up though anytime as long as i only install one driver (either catalyst or nforce)

this is now the 5th time i re-installed windows

system spec: a7n8x deluxe with 1.002A bios (gonna try an update now)
running two drives as serial raid and disconnected all other drives now (except the cdrom on IDE2 Master)
trying with cats 3.2 and nforce 1.16 by asus (windows deleted my ftp partition with the 2.03... downlaoded them now though)

Herc 9800 Pro (obviously... drivers are fine as long as i install them alone)
Windows XP

any suggestions?? PLEASE

 

[Jincuteguy]

Try to check the video card connection, or try to take it out and put it in again. And reformat your hardrive and install eerything over.
I bought mine Radeon 9800 card last Sunday, not from Hercules but Ati. It worked fine. I know I shoulda wait for the Hercules cause it has the blue cooling and Rainbow Six game,
By the way, how much did u buy yours Hercules 9800 for? is it $399? and where did u get it. thx.

 

[gururu]

take the 9800 out and install everything as you would normally (using the nforce2 drivers). Shut computer off. Start computer, disable the onboard video through the BIOS.
then shut down before windows loads.
Add 9800 and boot system.
hopefully, it will move to default VGA driver, at which you can proceed to install the 9800.

I don't think you need to actively delete Nvidia drivers with the nforce2 (I know it is a btch with the geforce cards).
i know that the Intel i845G can be disabled in the BIOS.

 

[alexdiablo]

correct me if i am wrong... the nforce2 doesn't have onboard video?! at least mine doesn't

 

[Viper96720]

Download drivercleaner to get rid of the Nvidia or ATI stuff. I think you can get it from driverheaven.net
I got an ATI card and had a Nvidia card before. I tried just removing the nvidia driver from add remove and deleting anything I could find. But I got errors when installing the
ATI card. So I just formatted the whole drive and everything was fine.
Found out about drivercleaner when I had to exchange the ATI card. Used drivercleaner put back in the Nvidia card while waiting for the ATI. Got another ATI card and used
driver cleaner to get rid of the Nvidia stuff. Didn't need to do a format of the whole drive. Didn't get any errors when installing the card.

 

[Rogozhin]

well

since it sounds like you've reinstalled windows a few times already your hds are probably clean sooo

does your nvforce have integrated video?

If it does heed the advice of the other posted about diabling it before installing your radeon.

Also if you're using raid and it's still not working try just straight install on one HD and see if it works.

are you using the drivers of the CD?

rogo

 

[Junkman]

I'm not familiar with the nforce boards, but which nvidia dirvers get installed when you re-install windows?...do you think its possible that even though you don't have built in graphics your chipset drivers might be installing a vga driver that is interferring with the catalyst installation? Also can you get windows started in Safe Mode? If so you may want to look at this link. Link See post #6. Hopefully, this will help to get your drivers installed properly although you may need to modify some of the steps outlined for your particular set up. I really can't say this is the fix you need but it may be worth looking at to see if its a possibility.

Also: make sure you have dx9 installed before you install the Catalyst drivers

 

[kylebisme]

i'll bet that all you need to do is go into your bios and disable the onboard video, assumeing you have onboard video.

 

[TypeM]

Bump...

WHERE did you get the Herc Card???

 

[John]

Originally posted by: TypeM
Bump...

WHERE did you get the Herc Card???

 

[TypeM]

Guys...don't hold out on us!!!

 

[Jincuteguy]

Yea, where did you get the Hercules card at?