Recent content by jennnn

Its working now :) I put the old hard drive back in with the new cable. Formatted the hard drive and installed WinXP. When I rebooted, I got a blank screen, so I booted into VGA mode. At that point, I decreased the resolution of the screen. I've rebooted it about 10 times now and so far it...

You need to look in your motherboard manual. To reset the CMOS you have to turn off the power, change a jumper, change it back, then turn on the power again. The motherboard manual will tell you which jumper is for CMOS reset. Jen

Yea I've thought about that, but it doesn't make sense that these problems are only occuring now. The video was fine before I got the computer. I finally rebooted the computer enough times to be able to read a few words off of that text screen. The jist of it was "unmountable boot...

I downloaded the latest drivers for the card and installed them in safe mode. It asked me to reboot and I did. And windows started up normally. It also said it found an new video controller and installed the drivers for it. So it did that. I rebooted again. Same problem..... splash screen, then...

I hit the F8, selected VGA mode and the same thing happened. Blue screen with text flashed up fast then the computer rebooted only to repeat the same cycle again. The funny this is that it worked right after I installed XP. I wanted to get it hooked up to the router so I could download all the...

sorry....... mobo is MS-6195

This is making me mental :) K7 Pro (MS-6196) motherboard with 600MHz AMD Duron Processor. NVidia TNT M64 video card. 128 meg ram. Crappy old 15" plug and play monitor. It had WinME on it and it was acting funny so I was asked to format and install windows XP. Fine. I updated the BIOS to...