Ok, here is my issue.
My nVidia GF4600Ti recently fried itself, so I bought a 6800 to replace it, along with another 512MB of RAM. Physical install of the card and stick went fine, and the computer booted up ok, detecting the extra memory along the way.
Now then. The BIOS page displays fine, and the "Windows XP" logo screen appears as if Windows is loading, and there is drive activity, so I guess it's leading, but for some reason, the screen goes black, and shortly afterwards, loading stops and it just hangs.
I'm guessing this might be because I haven't had chance to remove the old GF4600 drivers (cause it died). I've attempted to start the computer in safe mode, but it hangs again when loading the AGP driver.
I loath to re-format my HDD, as I don't want to loose all my data.
Any ideas what might be causing this, and how I can fix it?
Thanks in advance,
Ric B.
My nVidia GF4600Ti recently fried itself, so I bought a 6800 to replace it, along with another 512MB of RAM. Physical install of the card and stick went fine, and the computer booted up ok, detecting the extra memory along the way.
Now then. The BIOS page displays fine, and the "Windows XP" logo screen appears as if Windows is loading, and there is drive activity, so I guess it's leading, but for some reason, the screen goes black, and shortly afterwards, loading stops and it just hangs.
I'm guessing this might be because I haven't had chance to remove the old GF4600 drivers (cause it died). I've attempted to start the computer in safe mode, but it hangs again when loading the AGP driver.
I loath to re-format my HDD, as I don't want to loose all my data.
Any ideas what might be causing this, and how I can fix it?
Thanks in advance,
Ric B.