Black Screen/Can't boot safe mode

[Dagonini]

I am in a long process of building a new computer.

Specs:
Gigabyte N650 sli-DS4
2 gig Corsair DD2 ram
EVGA Gforce 8800 GTS
WD 150 gb raptor

I had everything working and could boot into windows just fine. Then
I went to the Nvidia site and downloaded the newest nforce drivers and
geforce drivers. I installed the geforce ones, restarted and
everthing was ok. I then installed the nforce drivers and rebooted
the system.

I get the initial gigabyte splash screen fine, then I see the "windows
starting up" screen (withe the little orange dots that go across)
then everything goes black. I can't get into safe mode wit F8. (or
potentially it is going into safe mode and I can't see it. I've tried
booting off my HD and I've tried booting off my Window's XP disk. (I
don't have a floppy drive, just a CD drive) The sum total of
everything is that I boot to a black screen. It seems like the
computer might have booted into windows but I just can't see it.

At this point I have no idea what to do. I'd be perfectly happy to
reinstall windows except when I boot from the disk it just goes into
windows.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

 

[VanguardLH]

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I am in a long process of building a new computer.

Specs:
Gigabyte N650 sli-DS4
2 gig Corsair DD2 ram
EVGA Gforce 8800 GTS
WD 150 gb raptor

I had everything working and could boot into windows just fine.
Then
I went to the Nvidia site and downloaded the newest nforce drivers
and
geforce drivers. I installed the geforce ones, restarted and
everthing was ok. I then installed the nforce drivers and rebooted
the system.

I get the initial gigabyte splash screen fine, then I see the
"windows
starting up" screen (withe the little orange dots that go across)
then everything goes black. I can't get into safe mode wit F8. (or
potentially it is going into safe mode and I can't see it. I've
tried
booting off my HD and I've tried booting off my Window's XP disk.
(I
don't have a floppy drive, just a CD drive) The sum total of
everything is that I boot to a black screen. It seems like the
computer might have booted into windows but I just can't see it.

At this point I have no idea what to do. I'd be perfectly happy to
reinstall windows except when I boot from the disk it just goes into
windows.

Looks like you installed the wrong chipset driver set so when trying
to boot then those drivers cannot recognize the hardware for which
they were coded because it isn't there. You'll probably have to boot
using the Windows install CD and select to do a Repair install. Then
get the mobo drivers from Gigabyte's web site, not from nVidia's.

 

[Dagonini]

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Looks like you installed the wrong chipset driver set so when trying
to boot then those drivers cannot recognize the hardware for which
they were coded because it isn't there. You'll probably have to boot
using the Windows install CD and select to do a Repair install. Then
get the mobo drivers from Gigabyte's web site, not from nVidia's.- Hide quoted text -

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If only it were that easy. When I try to boot from my windows XP disk
it just wants to boot into windows. I can't seem to make it reinstall
or repair windows.

 

[Ka2H]

If only it were that easy. When I try to boot from my windows XP disk
it just wants to boot into windows. I can't seem to make it reinstall
or repair windows.

Mary,

Enable BIOS, and then verify that the option to boot from CD-ROM is before
from - HD.

Three articles covering "Repair Install":

"How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/en-us

"Perform a Repair Installation":
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx

"How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install"
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm


Good luck,
Ka2H

 

[peter]

if it boots into windows but all you get is a blank screen try bringing up
task manager...contr/alt/delete...from there under file/new task(run) you
should be able to bring up Windows Explorer......then insert your Gigabyte
driver CD...it should run automatically and install the Nvidea drivers from
the CD.
You might have loaded the 680sli drivers........
peter