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Windows not booting, nforce users help!

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memories2002

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Rig is in sig. Heres whats happenned, all help GREATLY appreciated:

I tried out my friends 6800gt for a day, just to see how great it is, it worked fine. Then i uninstalled nvidia drivers, ran driver cleaner, rebooted with my 9800, and got blue screens and freezes before the desktop shows up. Safe mode worked fine, so i booted into it, and ran driver cleaner and uninstalled all nforce, nvidia and ati drivers. The nforce driver uninstaller gave me an error, but i used driver cleaner to remove them anyway. (big mistake).
Now the pc refused to boot into safe mode too.
Booted from xp cd, tried to repair, it asked for nvidia ethernet driver location (nvenet.sys) and abt 2 more nv driver sys files. I chose to "skip" these. Now after the repair completed, the pc reboots and is now stuck in a constant cycle of reboots as soon as the windows logo comes up.
PLEASE HELP!
Where do the nvidia nforce2 drivers go, maybe i can just replace all the .sys files and get it to start? Can someone tell me which driver(ide,gart,lan,???) goes in which folder ?
Thank you.
 
startoff by disabling nvidia services in recovery console - sorry, can't alter registry directly from RC,
reboot and see it that does it.
If not, then post back with the symptoms if they are any different
 
Read through this article about the recovery console. It has helpful info about both disabling services and about replacing your registry hives from the Repair folder.

Try disabling the Nvidia services first. Exit recovery console (type exit at command line after changes) and reboot. If that doesn't help, you might want to try the options mentioned in the article about replacing your registry hives from the Repair folder.

Note: When replacing the registry hives, there's a pretty good chance you will have to reinstall your software and hardware drivers, as the Repair folder is normally a snapshot of the system from first installation. If you rename the current hives as outlined in the article, you can always go back to them again if need be by renaming once again to original.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu.../XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmc_str_bjid.asp
 
it sounds to me like the IDE driver is the culprit here. try messing in that area and see if you can get it to boot. i know this from my own experience where i updated the nvidia IDE driver and got the endless reboots like you describe. i think the only way to solve it is fresh install of windows but i could be wrong there. that is how i solved it anyhow 🙂
 
DONE! Just removed ALL my PCI Devices (audigy, realtek pci ethernet, compro tv tuner) and disabled all onboard stuff (nforce audio, LAN..) and then did a repair install! Back to how i used to be! yaaaay! thanks all!!
 
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