I'll try and start at the beginning. I fried my last mobo and was forced to rebuild. I picked up an Asus P5GDC mobo & a P4 3.21 Ghz processor. Shoved my old 2x1gig sticks of ram in it, and ran my ancient copy of winxp sp1. I'm sure many of you know how painstaking it is to reinstall your OS and work out the bugs. So I update to SP2 get all my service packs. grab all the latest drivers and I hit my first major snag. For some strange reason the device manager wouldn't recognize my brand new ATI Radeon 9550 (pci-e). I went through the bios and disabled onboard video. changed it from booting pci before pci-e and still I could not get the thing to work. Frustrated I took it down to the local computer shop and I recieved a call the next day that the video card was bad. So I order it replaced with an Nvidia 7300 GS. Computer guy says it runs great and sends it home along with a HEFTY bill. So I take it out of the box plug it up and sit down to play a NEWLY installed game. And I start receiving error messages. One after another. Computer cannot find device. Application failed to start because device could not be initialized. yada yada yada. "BIG Headache!!" I found that all I had to do was uninstall the video card, restart, reinstall the video card and reinstall directX. Worked PERFECTLY. (and I know what your saying.. "why am I reading this?") I cannot find a way for my system to KEEP the drivers and/or card working. I live in Tampa FL. The lightning capital of the world. Every power outage, every time I have to update windows, or a program, I'm forced to reboot. This causes the card to stop working. I just want to know if anyone out there has EVER had this problem themselves or knows how I could fix it...
I would like to be able to save myself 15-20 minutes every time this thing shuts down. Any advice would be wholly appreciated. If I left anything out please let me know and I will gladly repost the info. Also if there isn't a fix for this please let me know that I'm stuck with it. Thanks in advance.This may not be it but it can cause this condition...when you did your clean install did you remember to re-install the MBoard drivers ? ?
I've forgotten this step in the past.I installed the OS, and drivers for the motherboard that came in the package(which were a little outdated) sound card drivers video card drivers as well as the audio codecs, and video game controller drivers. When I still had the problem with the video card so I went so far as to flash the bios with newer drivers from the manufacturer. It was a last resort option (I'm still rather new to that sort of thing.) and didn't seem to fix anything.