Re: Faulty graphics card or PCI problem?
Hey thanks for the welcome.
Well, I seem to have had a domino effect of problems since I addressed the graphics card.
I replaced the card with a new 6600 and yes the blue lines were gone. However, both my CDrom and DVD drives refused to work.
Fiddled about and got the CDrom drive to work. Then the sound card (Audigy plat ex PCI) started playing up.
Reformatted and (after a few failed attempts) reinstalled XP, and Windows just kept telling me that the sound card was incorrectly installed. Changed PCI slot, no difference. All PCIs reporting OK. In fact everything reported as okay. I did notice that 2 CDroms were being identified during Windows bootup which lead me to think that that had something to do with my DVD drive not working. However it was present in Device Managers Properties. Perhaps the drive is faulty and it is currently secondary master to the CDrom slave?
Anyway, I backed up and reformatted and ever since have been trying to reinstall XP. I've disabled power management and serial ports in the BIOS but no luck. Every time I get all the way through to 1 or 2 minutes left on the installation (finalising) and the system hangs! AAAaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
Any ideas please help. I've nothing now, just a lifetime of watching Windows fail to install from the CD.... :-(
Thanks
By the way my system is:
MSI KT7 Turbo m/board
Athlon XP2100 proc
Nvidia Geforce 6 6600 vid card
Audigy Ex platinum sound card
512 MB DDR
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