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Phaelax
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Posted: 15th Jun 2010 03:56
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I only have a few minutes before library closes, so I gotta be quick.

Dell desktop (brother's)
P4 2.5
512mb rimm
XP pro SP3
Geforce 4200TI


It worked fine yesterday. I removed the cd burner and installed a dvd burner, booted up, everything was fine. Shut down to replace the gfx card with my old nvidia 5200. Booted up, no login prompt, just the default blue background. Shutdown, replaced gfx card, same issue. Replaced cd-rom with original, still same issue. System is in its original hardware state, but every time I boot up (even in safe mode), the login prompt never appears, just an empty background and a mouse. Any ideas?


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BiggAdd
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Posted: 15th Jun 2010 03:59 Edited at: 15th Jun 2010 03:59
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Have you tried repairing from the windows xp CD? Sounds like something is corrupt.

Although it does seem odd that no error message is given.

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Posted: 15th Jun 2010 06:04 Edited at: 15th Jun 2010 06:05
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uninstall the video drivers all of them. and let the plug and play do the rest when you bootup, also see if everythings good in your bios.
take off boot from CD maybe the new drive is interfering, that happened
once with my new ATA HD I thought it was the video card but it was my dam HD. more then likely its the new CD drive. check the bios and turn off all the boot crap. well I think you have to boot from HD.

Hope that helps. Later

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Phaelax
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Posted: 16th Jun 2010 00:25
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I tried removing the cd rom from the boot sequence and even disconnected it completely, same issue. I can't uninstall the drivers because I cannot get into Windows, even from safe mode. The BIOS on this Dell is extremely limited and offers little more than setting boot order.

I attempted to repair the install, but after booting from the cd I didn't see the option for repair. Maybe it was just too late at night for me and I missed it. I'll attempt again.

Worst case scenario I'll back up my brother's data and reinstall. I've been wanting to try a new slipstream install anyway.


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