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willybeef · Aug 21, 2004

Im not sure where to put this !my friend brought a graphics card and fitted it himself, it comes up and recognises the card but when it boots to windows it says building up driver database and stays on 0% and crashes and i cant boot further unless i use safemode but then the drives are not connected so i can put the drivers on! i belive i need to reinstall windows (not format) is this true ? if so how do i go about doing this ? thanks,
chris

willybeef · Aug 21, 2004

sorry but i forgot to include its windows ME

willybeef · Aug 21, 2004

if anybody can help my msn address is [email protected] <--- works with msn mesanger

David · Aug 21, 2004

Have you tried booting to safe mode instead?

willybeef · Aug 21, 2004

yes, it boots up fine , its just when i click add drivers windows locks up, when i boot windows normal it asks for the drivers and crashes so im lost !

TheGreySpectre · Aug 22, 2004

what card are you using, what I would do is get the latest card drivers (probably ATI catalyst or Nvidia drivers) and install those in safe mode without letting windows try to do it itself

willybeef · Aug 22, 2004

thats what i thought but when i try to install (safe mode does not see the cd drives) and the drivers are 14mb

willybeef · Aug 22, 2004

david said install windows again , but my dad said you have to format if u boot from dos disks ! does anybody know how i can reinstall windows , i know im ment to boot from cd but when i try this it loads up windows anyway , i think its a case of formatting to be honest i think its a corrupt windows installation because it crashes at driver screen

Tyson · Aug 22, 2004

To boot from a disc change the first boot device to CDROM in the CMOS.

Barret · Aug 22, 2004

get to cmos by pressing enter or f1 (i think those are the two) before windows starts

MyPCAlexi · Aug 22, 2004

my guess is that windows is being ghey on you. you might want to reformat, but that maybe one of those worse case scenario type deals. that seems really weird. well either way good luck and i hope that helps ya

KnowlesTech · Aug 22, 2004

Put in your Windows ME disk and browse to it and select Setup.exe, this will allow you to reinstall windows over the top of itself without actually changing anything. Put your old video card in first. Once you have reinstalled your OS go to the website for the Video Card and make sure it works with Windows ME. Also ME and 98 had problems like this since the beginning, it is usually a kernel problem that also makes your Explorer and IExplorer crash. This means you have to reinstall over the old OS or simply reformat reinstall. Try to install over the existing one first though because it keeps all your programs and preferences. In Win 98, not sure about ME since I never used after I beta tested SR5, you would go to Run then type in SFC to replace certain files.

FlailBoy · Aug 23, 2004

its just when i click add drivers windows locks up, when i boot windows normal it asks for the drivers and crashes so im lost !

When you say

boot windows normal

, do you mean that you are able to run it in normal (not safe) mode? If so, boot it up and go into your control panel device manager. Take a look at the video card. See what it says about the driver that's there (if any).

You can also go to bootdisk.com and get a WIN98 (or WIN ME) bootdisk. You'll have the option to start the computer w/ CDROM support.

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