PC Freezes on Start-Up w/ PCI Nvidia card installed

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Simply: my computer freezes up on the start up black Windows screen
(with the blue, moving status bar) when I have a PCI video card
installed. I only have PCI, no AGP or PCI-X. I have tried it with both
the drivers installed and not installed. I have also tried 2 different
video cards (Nvidia FX5500 and FX5200). I had a card installed that
worked fine when I recently had a clean install of XP but after taking
it out to update windows (had to ) I ran into this problem.

The only thing I did to the computer before putting the video card back
in was to install a PCI sound card (Sound Blaster Live). The onboard
video works just fine. I tried to disable onboard video but my BIOS
does not have an option for disabling the onboard video, just adjusting
the allocated memory.

I have a Pavilion a1034n with the factory board, Intel chipset 915 GV,
if that helps.

Thanks a lot!

I'm no expert on these issues, but a google search produced results
that this is a problematic card to install, and also that other posters
who contacted the OEM's helpline were instructed NOT to use the
drivers supplied with card but download uptodate drivers/patch from site!
Good luck

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Ensure that the SB Live card is in the PCI slot FURTHEST AWAY from the Video
card.....

 

[ZILLA]

Simply: my computer freezes up on the start up black Windows screen
(with the blue, moving status bar) when I have a PCI video card
installed. I only have PCI, no AGP or PCI-X. I have tried it with both
the drivers installed and not installed. I have also tried 2 different
video cards (Nvidia FX5500 and FX5200). I had a card installed that
worked fine when I recently had a clean install of XP but after taking
it out to update windows (had to ) I ran into this problem.

The only thing I did to the computer before putting the video card back
in was to install a PCI sound card (Sound Blaster Live). The onboard
video works just fine. I tried to disable onboard video but my BIOS
does not have an option for disabling the onboard video, just adjusting
the allocated memory.

I have a Pavilion a1034n with the factory board, Intel chipset 915 GV,
if that helps.

Thanks a lot!

 

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Simply: my computer freezes up on the start up black Windows screen
(with the blue, moving status bar) when I have a PCI video card
installed. I only have PCI, no AGP or PCI-X. I have tried it with both
the drivers installed and not installed. I have also tried 2 different
video cards (Nvidia FX5500 and FX5200). I had a card installed that
worked fine when I recently had a clean install of XP but after taking
it out to update windows (had to ) I ran into this problem.

The only thing I did to the computer before putting the video card back
in was to install a PCI sound card (Sound Blaster Live). The onboard
video works just fine. I tried to disable onboard video but my BIOS
does not have an option for disabling the onboard video, just adjusting
the allocated memory.

I have a Pavilion a1034n with the factory board, Intel chipset 915 GV,
if that helps.

Thanks a lot!

Here are a couple of excellent forums that may be of help:

http://www.nzone.com/page/home.html

http://experts.about.com/q/Video-Card-Problems-2109/

One certain contributing factor to your problem is that you have
not disabled on-board video, start here:
http://tinyurl.com/cunhl

 

[ZILLA]

THANKS FOR THE REPLIES - I HAVE FIXED THE PROBLEM!!

(I had to run windows in safe mode to access the device manager to
disable the onboard video)