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I'm afraid your system may be beyond any help short of a complete reformat
and reinstallation of one, legitimate, noninfected operating system. If you
install more than one OS, the accepted practice when installing more than
one Microsoft Operating system is to start with the oldest first.
You've done so much wrong that there is little hope of diagtnosis.
And why, if as you state "No overclocking used (pcs are unstable enough
without introducing more problems....
)" would you use a 'cracked'
version of Windows XP Professional? Evidently you've gotten what you were
aiming at; total operating system melt-down.
"Dan" <daniel_roach@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1126870781.572803.307970@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Phil Weldon wrote:
>> 'Dan' wrote, in part:
>> > I've been having nothing but problems with my pc this past couple of
>> > weeks...
>> _____
>>
>> More and exact information is necessary.
>
> Hi - Sorry to be a bit vague there, I'm just getting fed up with every
> little change causing problems over the past couple of weeks...
>
>
>> A good start would be to include all information in the body of the
>> message,
>> and not leave any orphan details in the subject line alone.
>> And what Operating System do you use? XP Professional or XP Home?
>
> It's the upgrade version of XP home..
>
>
>> And what computer do you have? Model number? Home built? Hardware?
>
> It's an advent t9002 (athlon64 3400, 512 megs, 200gig hd), and the 80g
> hd from my previous pc..
>
> The story of the last couple of weeks is fairly long, but..
>
> I am multibooting my pc using acronis OS selector. Last saturday I had
> an XP home partition,. ann an XP pro partition (hacked version of xp
> pro), I decided to install win me on one of the partitions - this was
> working ok, but I couldn't read files which I'd copied nto the
> partition from my xp boot, and xp pro wouldn't work. My attempts to
> "fix" this, went pear shaped, so I used the XP recovery disk to
> repqaair xp home - it installed it over win me, and got into all sorts
> of muddles with partitions, and wouldn't recognise my USB modem.
>
> I tried to reiinstall winme on another partition - and this was when it
> got real fun! despite the fact I used the acronis os install wizard,
> and did exactly the same as before - it reformatted my whole hard disk,
> rendering the recovery cd useless, so that's when I got the upgrade
> version of xp home.
>
> SPent the next week getting back to a multibooting system with winme,
> 98se and xp home.
>
> Things had been runningt nicely since nonday.
>
>
>> And exactly what display adapter do you have?
>
> it's a PNY geforce 6600
>
>
>> Did you try installing Direct X? IF DXDIAG reports 'no version of direct
>> x
>> found', don't you think that you should reinstall Direct X? Just because
>> some files are listed (what files?) dosen't mean direct x is properly
>> installed.
>
> I'm not sure what happened here - DXDIAG was checking out ok, no
> missing files, no registry problems, all display tests fine, and it was
> running those awkward games and demos without too much fuss!
>
> It was only after installing the new Nvidia driver that I had the
> dxdiag problems
>
>>
>> Some thoughts that may help:
>> Direct X is not part of the display adapter driver.
>> Safe mode does not require a driver.
>
> I'm not sure what it is with safe mode, but I always had troubles
> loading it under windows ME (would "boot" but the system would hang
> before I'd got to do what I wanted, and I've NEVER been able to boot XP
> into safe mode!! (this counts for my old pc too) - it just brings up a
> list of files, and gets stuck at one!
>
>> If your system will not boot into safe mode then you most likely have a
>> corrupt operating system; is there anything you might have done that
>> could
>> corrupt the system (like overclocking that results in a PCI bus speed
>> higher
>> than ~ 37 MHz?)
>
> The only change made, was reinstalling the new drivers, and then trying
> tto uninstall them when I had these troubles. No overclocking used (pcs
> are unstable enough without introducing more problems....
)
>
>>
>> There are diagnostics that can be run using the OS CD, especially if you
>> made a recovery information disk.
>>
>> At any rate, you should prepare for a more serious problem than just a
>> display adapter that won't work; you may be on the way to losing
>> important
>> data. I suggest that you try swapping in a known good display adapter
>> and
>> using safe mode to diagnose the problem.
>
> I tried using the pcs built in shared adaptor - but that had the same
> problem
>
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