Wonderful day

[Farmer]

Yeah, I was looking forward to today. My X1950Pro was arriving.

Took it out of the box, put it in my PC, booted, didn't work. Tried messing with BIOS settings, still no display with new card.

Then, when I try to boot into Windows, the system reports a corrupt system32/config files. So, I get my XP install CD out and try to fix that with the repair console. XP install doesn't see my current XP installation, and now Im ******.

Great, great day. Apparently DOA board and now nonfunctional computer. Teaches me to try to put new stuff into an old computer.

 

[corkyg]

That is really odd. I assume your old vid card was working today before you made the switch?

If so, putting it back should also work.

It is very odd that changing a video card would corrupt a file. Before putting in the new card, did you remove all the software and drivers for the old one. and boot to generic dWindows display drivers?

 

[Farmer]

Im pretty sure that changing the vid card didn't do any of the windows nonsense I mentioned. I'm pretty sure I did that on my own; something involving PerfectDisk's offline defrag, which did something I did not expect it to do, and I restarted.

Yeah, I screwed up big time.

I lost a few photos, though, I didn't really keep much on the boot drive. I guess I'll have to do a fresh install much sooner than I had planned for. Maybe over this weekend. And then there's the problem of RMAing the vid card and getting a replacement. Jesus christ.

If that X1950PRO would've just worked. Damn. I can't even RMA for replacement. Newegg doesn't stock the card anymore.