crappy message I keep getting

bangbangben · Post by **bangbangben** » Sun Mar 23, 2003 10:47 pm

Windows has just recovered from a hardware conflict, please restart the computer. is the message I keep getting. the screen goes black, kicks me into 640*480 and 256 colors. Any ideas what's doing this?? I dont get much of a report, other than a lot of numbers and letters. It may be my radeon 9500 as I get lines all through DOS and the bios, which tends to mean the memory has gone bad, but would this cause this?? I am not overclcoknig anything or doing anything that would jeapordize my system stability............. its sucks! I reinstalled 2 times now. any ideas?
thanks

CaterpillarAssassin · Mon Mar 24, 2003 12:20 am

Odd. What are your system specs? Did this just start happeneing or is this a new machine?

bangbangben · Post by **bangbangben** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 7:10 am

Gigabyte 8INXP (granite bay board)
P4 2.4B
256X2 PC2700 DDR
800JB 80 gig 8 meg cache
32X10X40 CDRW
Radeon 9500 128 meg in 8X AGP
use onboard sound and LAN, realtek 650 sound, intel gigabit LAN

the motherboard and the CPU are new, I went from AMD to INTEL so its a new problem, but originally nothing was happening, I think its the video card, I think when I swapped it out of the old system it broke............

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 9:50 am

What version of Windows? If it's XP, try going back to an earlier restore point or do a Repair intstallation.

Did this card work properly in this system previously, or have you been getting this error only since installing the card?

Do you have the latest motherboard drivers installed? You might not have the proper mobo AGP driver or PCI to AGP bridge driver running.

When you changed the mobo did you run a repair installation of Windows? You can't just swap the mobo and always expect XP to configure itself properly. You need to do a reapir install. Boot from the CD, select Reapir from the second menu after the EULA. This wipes the device manager and re-installs all the hardware clean. You then need to install your mobo drivers (4 in 1's if it's a VIA board). Then install the latest video driver.

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 11:40 am

I'm sure you re-installed the ATI drivers and everything again too, right.

I have lost my drivers at times while playing with the systems here, then windows only lets me have about 16 color 640x480. Has happened with several video cards and windows at times. Kinda sounds like what you said if your getting into windows ok at the lower settings. I usually get a message detecting new hardware instead of conflict errror when it does it to me though.
Although I don't get the lines in dos or bios normally.

Hey Fp,
Is the repair for 2k like that also?
I was trying to get my IDE drivers setup right on this Iwill xp333 and now I am down good! A couple times I got that blue screen with a thousand numbers and letters and the message " If this is the first time you saw this"

Normally after rebooting and using the F8 key I could select last known working settings. After trying to re-install 2k, I now get nothing but the blue screen everytime! Last known settings do not work now either. Why I lost it all in the middle of installing 2K again I don't know! It was working before the install started.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 12:02 pm

There is a repair option if you boot the Win2K CD as well, but it's not as robust as XP. Been a while since I've done Win2K repair so I don't remember exactly what the menu choices are.

Judg3 · Post by **Judg3** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 1:01 pm

hey canton kid, is the bluescreen your getting now "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE" by any chance?

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 8:48 am

That was one of the most recent messages.
Seems even though I install to my 60gig drive, 2K writes boot files to whatever drive it wants too, mostly the other drive!

I did a full install of 2k, removed the second harddrive and again no boot files when I tried to bootup with the 60 as the only drive. I've got it going now with one drive only. But have to re-install all my programs now as 2k did not set anythng up, also some look to d: for files, but the drive is now C:.
What ever happened to variables?

I lost all my drivers and with the default 2k ones the ATI video card only had 16k or 256k color and 640x480 again.

Bangbang, you get your video working yet?
I've swapped and switched stuff around a ton, kinda hard to break a card. Unless you have an extra part like the corner of the card, or saw sparks I dought it's broke.
Check bios settings and drivers. If your getting a conflict message pull everything and disable everything in bios that's not needed, like sound, lan etc.. and see if the card works. Then set the extras up one at a time. Also your new board doesn't by any chance have on board video does it?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 9:18 am

I cracked a track on a GF2 MX the other day. Not as hard as you might think

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 10:04 am

OH.

Geuss I been lucky. Those little ram sticks are what I fear breaking. SOme have been just plain HARD to push/snap in at times.

Say, speaking of breaking or not, Bangbang should check the card edges and see what the contacts look like and the slot too. I had a card once that had to be seated just exactly so or it would not work!
SOmetimes blocky, sometimes lines and gunk, other times nothing. But when seated just right it worked perfect. That was an old 32 bit ISA card, but could happen with newer ones too. That one I have had the problem when brand new. It's in the 486dx 4 100.