Blue Error/Failure Screen On Boot Up

[westy159]

I tried to put a new graphics card into my sisters PC to replace the poor onboard graphics, something that i have done many times before on my own PC but on boot up i got a blue screen stating that Windows had to shut down to prevent damage. I switched back to the onboard graphics but same error screen comes up.

Please help. What could the problem be and how can i fix it?

 

[Nitestick]

perhaps a driver conflict. try booting into safe mode. if that works remove and drivers installed for the onboard and reboot with the new graphics card in, making sure that the onboard graphics is also disabled.

 

[westy159]

@ nitestick

i can go into safe mode and try to get rid of onboard graphics drivers if i can find them but on the BIOS there isnt an option to switch to AGP as far as i can tell. Also no drivers have been installed for the new graphics card because the disc wouldnt allow it unless the card was in first.

So what should i try?

cheers

 

[Nitestick]

there may be jumpers on the motherboard to disable the onboard graphics. i think it should work if you remove the installed drivers in safe mode

 

[westy159]

Thanks for the help. What actually fixed it was a system restore which i decided to try even though i believed the problem was a hardware thing and not software. Still not sure what the problem was but the PC is running just as well as it did originally so its all good.

Cheers.