Ok, so here is the story.  I have a home build computer less than a year old.  I have been running windows 7 and a nvidia 9600 graphics card.  Today, I decided to upgrade to a radeon HD 6850 card.  I put the card in and went through all the install steps and the graphics were wacky.  After the install i restarted and after the message "windows is starting" i got the black screen of DEATH followed a few secs later by windows attempting to restart, and at the same POINT it went to the black screen.  SO it removed the new card and put the old one back in and attempted to restart, Same thing, Windows is loading then black.

Next I loaded the comp in my car and drove to the geek squad.  After an hour of pokeing around, the "geek" could not figure out what the problem was and wanted me to leave it there for 4-5 DAYS and a big fee for them to "test it further".  Oh! before i left home, I had taken the hard drive out and put it in a working comp and I got the same result, so I had a feeling it might be the drive.  The "geek" suggested I try a new drive and fresh instal of win 7.  That was the cheaper option so i bought a new barracuda 7200rpm 1TB drive (same one i had before), went home and attempted to put win 7 on the new drive with the new graphic card in the comp.  Aside from wacko graphics, win 7 went through the instal process and when i was prompted to name the computer and set a user name and password, I declined it.  When the comp restarted it poped up a password screen.... I had not set one, and now I cant access it.  I EVEN tried reinstalling it AGAIN and AGAIN, it asked for a password when I never put one in.

So as you can see I have a BIG mess, any help or insight would be great!  IM very frustrated  Ok, I guess I stumped yall lol.  So after alot of searching I was able to find out how to unlock the super admin windows 7 auto installs and I got admin that way, so that part is fixed. YAY    NOW...the graphics card instal is still the issue.  When I put the new card in (radeon 6850) and the driver disk it came with, the graphics are absolutly haywire (everything is huge and blurr)  I tell it to install and it all seems to work fine until it asks me to restart.  I do, and it crashes, I get a message saying "catalyst failed to load detection driver". Quote from: JennG on February 27, 2011, 02:31:12 AM

Ok, I guess I stumped yall lol.