WinXp Pro boots into a blank blue screen....

[OfficeLinebacker]

Blue screen of death redux?

I dunno. But when I run chkdsk it's fine. When I boot normally, hangs on Blue. I'll do a system restore waaay back to when it was running normally, reboot, and BAM

It's a Tbred 1.4GHz that I had OCed to 1.65 pretty stable running folding. I declocked everything back to base speeds and I'm still getting this error, so I doubt that it is heat, voltage, or OC related.

ANy ideas on what programs to run in safe mode?

JC

 

[Insidious]

I'd start with booting to safe mode and reloading your video drivers.

display properties => settings => advanced => adapter => properties => Driver => update driver.

Don't let windows search for a driver... no => display list.... => have disk => browse to your driver (either it is on your install CD or a set you downloaded)

-Sid

 

[OfficeLinebacker]

Hmmm...I do get the Knight Rider screen OK...would this mean it's still a display driver issue perhaps? I DID try a different Graphics card recently....

I also think it may be related to uninstalling MBM, though I'm not sure.

I think I will go back to the display adpater I knew worked, and go from there. Thanks for the tip.

Also note that after a system restore, it does function fine until the next restart.

 

[OfficeLinebacker]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, by reinstalling the AGP card (I had a PCI in there) the prolems are gone. Now just time to screw around with the OC settings again 🙂

Thtanks!

 

[Insidious]

My pleasure.... Glad it worked out!

-Sid