New Video Card

[Dan Healy]

When I replaced my video card Voodoo 3000 3dfx with a ATI Radeon 7000 and
booted up windows XP home. I get an error code of 0x800703e6 it has
something to do with Windows licensing.
and the system would just reboot and never load the drivers for the new
card.

How do I replace my video card?

 

[Kevin]

Did you follow the instructions included with your new card for replacing
your old card? Have you removed the old card in Device Manager before
installing the new card?

 

[Dan Healy]

I did not uninstall the old card first. Just did not think of it.
I don't have the instuction for the new card. Just figured windows would ask
for them and I would download them from the web.
After all it should be that easy."ha ha ha"

 

[Plato]

How do I replace my video card?

Start by reading the docs on how to do it. Some of the new ones wanted
the drivers installed first. Or, did you simply cross your fingers and
hope for the best?

 

[Dan Healy]

I don't have the doc's that came with the card.
I have uninstalled the old video card and got this message when I booted up
with the new video card installed. A problem is preventing Windows from
accurately checking the LICENSE for this computer.
ERROR CODE: 0x800700c1

 

[Alex Nichol]

When I replaced my video card Voodoo 3000 3dfx with a ATI Radeon 7000 and
booted up windows XP home. I get an error code of 0x800703e6 it has
something to do with Windows licensing.
and the system would just reboot and never load the drivers for the new
card.

You should be able to get in by hitting F8 as BIOS info goes to black,
and taking 'Safe Mode'. In that go to a run of MSConfig.exe and on the
BOOT.INI page check /BASEVIDEO, exit and restart. That will use basic
drivers that should work with any card.

Then go to Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager find the
present card in 'Display Adapters', and Action - Remove. Reboot, and
you should be able to install the new drivers - before that does its
final reboot, uncheck the box in MSConfig. Exit and on reboot there
will be a message about `System Configuration`. Check the `Do not show
again` box and exit

 

[Dan Healy]

When I try to boot up on safe mode with the Radeon card installed the system
just reboots and reboots I replace the video card with the orginal one and
everything is fine.

 

[Boogersnot]

When I try to boot up on safe mode with the Radeon card installed the
system just reboots and reboots I replace the video card with the
orginal one and everything is fine.

Did you uninstall the old drivers before swapping video cards? If not,
do so, then change the driver settings to generic VGA. You should be
able to reboot now with the new card installed. Follow the instructions
that came with the new card on how to install the drivers.