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I have a Compaq Presario 5006CA that over the last several months has slowly
been acting up, i.e. rebooting after shutdown started, locking up after
shutdown started, system freezing for 30 or so seconds while surfing the net
and, most recently, video display problems. My video settings were locked at
16 color 640x480 resolution. After trying to change them to anything else and
after rebooting nothing gets changed. Also, my mouse would not work in normal
bootup, only selective bootup with my system.ini file disabled.
A local computer store advised to uninstall my video drivers and to delete a
few files and then to reboot. This would cause to computer to want new
drivers, which I would direct to the c:\cpqdrv\nvidia folder. This was BAD
advice. Now I cannot boot up at all. I get the Compaq screen and the WINME
screen but then the system just keeps rebooting over and over and over.....
Using the startup disk and booting under safe mode does the same thing. I
cannot load windows AT ALL!!!^%$~@ I don't want to lose any photos, etc on
hard drive so factory restore on my Recovery CD is not an option. I just want
to reload WINME from my hard drive CAB files. I can get to C:\ and can access
folders that way so I figure this may be an option. One of the files I had to
extract was VMM32. I guess that was one of the files that was deleted. If any
other files need to be extracted I will certainly give it a try or if
reloading WINME is easier in an attempt to address the other issues I would
try that as well.
Any help would be appreciated!
Chris Fraser
I have a Compaq Presario 5006CA that over the last several months has slowly
been acting up, i.e. rebooting after shutdown started, locking up after
shutdown started, system freezing for 30 or so seconds while surfing the net
and, most recently, video display problems. My video settings were locked at
16 color 640x480 resolution. After trying to change them to anything else and
after rebooting nothing gets changed. Also, my mouse would not work in normal
bootup, only selective bootup with my system.ini file disabled.
A local computer store advised to uninstall my video drivers and to delete a
few files and then to reboot. This would cause to computer to want new
drivers, which I would direct to the c:\cpqdrv\nvidia folder. This was BAD
advice. Now I cannot boot up at all. I get the Compaq screen and the WINME
screen but then the system just keeps rebooting over and over and over.....
Using the startup disk and booting under safe mode does the same thing. I
cannot load windows AT ALL!!!^%$~@ I don't want to lose any photos, etc on
hard drive so factory restore on my Recovery CD is not an option. I just want
to reload WINME from my hard drive CAB files. I can get to C:\ and can access
folders that way so I figure this may be an option. One of the files I had to
extract was VMM32. I guess that was one of the files that was deleted. If any
other files need to be extracted I will certainly give it a try or if
reloading WINME is easier in an attempt to address the other issues I would
try that as well.
Any help would be appreciated!
Chris Fraser