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Windows 7 killed my pc aka: BIGGEST UPDATE EVER aka: BIGGEST FUCKUP EVER
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10-23-2009, 08:06 AM

So I went on ahead installing windows 7 yesterday and after restarting for the first time, during the installation it went to a black screen with a flashing white cursor (a la dos) so now I have no PC at all and am using my work and girlfriends PC. I got no clue what you guys need to know but if you want to know what I have as a PC:
Motherboard
XFX Nforce 790I Ultra LGA775 ATX DDR3 3PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 2PCI SATA2 RAID Sound GBLAN 1394

Processor
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Quad Core Processor LGA775 Kentsfield 2.40GHZ 1066FSB 8MB Retail Box

Video Card
EVGA E-GEFORCE 9800GX2 KO Crysis 650MHZ 1GB 2.05GHZ GDDR3 PCI-E Dual DVI-I HDMI HDCP Video Card


The Rest
500GB Hardrive
4GB of RAM


So officially fuck windows and all it stands for, hello UBUNTU 9.04!!


SO now it's gone really bad, I folded and decided to goback to xp and leave a small partition space for win7 if I can get it to to work, what I wanted to do was update my bios, then my mobo drivers then hope that would fix my drivers for my card. I ended up flashing the bios and now my pc is sitting on my dinning room table with the battery removed, hoping that my default bios will magically reset Q_Q

In related news, if this doesn't work, looks like I'll be getting a new mobo/processor


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10-23-2009, 10:17 AM

So...did you try to upgrade or do a full install?

Do you have another OS you can boot to?

Can you boot from the CD and get to the installation screen again?


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10-23-2009, 10:20 AM

Alright, so I had the upgrade disc and I can always boot the cd and get to the installation screen
I could try and make a partition and re-install XP


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10-23-2009, 10:47 AM

(10-23-2009, 10:20 AM)commish link Wrote: Alright, so I had the upgrade disc and I can always boot the cd and get to the installation screen
I could try and make a partition and re-install XP

Yea, you might want to try to reinstall XP then reupgrade


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10-23-2009, 10:57 AM

like the only thing that comes to mine is that my retail xp is pirated legitimate, but if that was the case, usually Microsoft tells you that you might be a victim of fraud


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10-23-2009, 01:21 PM

Dunno If I'm right or not but on the website it said you could only do an upgrade from vista. For xp I think you have to do a full "custom" install.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windo...-windows-7
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10-23-2009, 01:35 PM

I bought the upgrade disc, but you get the option to select custom and do a proper wipe, (which I did).


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10-23-2009, 01:38 PM

yea, you shouldnt even be bothering with an upgrade, just do the full format/custom install.

edit: ok nvm, you did the right thing. Which version of W7 did you install? and was it 32 or 64bit? I can't really think of anything that would cause the problem you're describing, best I can say is try it again this weekend and I'll keep you in mind if I run across something that might be helpful


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10-23-2009, 01:55 PM

I've already tried the 64x and the 32x, I formated my box and made a 150000bm partiton for XP, I'm going to use the other partiton to try and boot 7 on it


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10-24-2009, 04:57 PM

So btw how do I get steam running in linux?


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10-24-2009, 05:03 PM

(10-24-2009, 04:57 PM)commish link Wrote: So btw how do I get steam running in linux?

Wine


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10-24-2009, 11:30 PM

(10-24-2009, 05:03 PM)Caffeine link Wrote: [quote author=commish link=topic=3776.msg119375#msg119375 date=1256421459]
So btw how do I get steam running in linux?

Wine
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Good luck with that, I sure as fuck couldn't do it and there's like a FUCK TON of red tape involved in getting wine working at all.


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10-25-2009, 02:20 AM

I think I stand for the majority of this board when I say you will run into a fuckton more trouble playing games on Ubuntu than figuring out your Windows problem.


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10-25-2009, 04:37 AM

(10-25-2009, 02:20 AM)Spore link Wrote: I think I stand for the majority of this board when I say you will run into a fuckton more trouble playing games on Ubuntu than figuring out your Windows problem.


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10-25-2009, 06:40 AM

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