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commish Lurker   Posts: 244 Joined: Jun 2008 |
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 Geoff: i've never had a sammich like this Geoff: its so good Dr. Commish: that recipe is yours forever now, keep it close and impress the lady of your dreams Geoff: YOU GODDIT DOCTAH JONES 
(This post was last modified: 10-26-2009, 08:49 AM by commish.)
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CaffeinePowered Mad Hatter   Posts: 12,998 Joined: Mar 2008 |
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? ![[Image: caffsighl7.jpg]](http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/5918/caffsighl7.jpg) Â![[Image: 1184299259221.gif]](http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x284/CaffeinePower/1184299259221.gif) Sig by Joel |
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commish Lurker Posts: 244 Joined: Jun 2008 |
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 Geoff: i've never had a sammich like this Geoff: its so good Dr. Commish: that recipe is yours forever now, keep it close and impress the lady of your dreams Geoff: YOU GODDIT DOCTAH JONES
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CaffeinePowered Mad Hatter Posts: 12,998 Joined: Mar 2008 |
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 Yea, you might want to try to reinstall XP then reupgrade ÂSig by Joel |
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commish Lurker Posts: 244 Joined: Jun 2008 |
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
Geoff: i've never had a sammich like this Geoff: its so good Dr. Commish: that recipe is yours forever now, keep it close and impress the lady of your dreams Geoff: YOU GODDIT DOCTAH JONES
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Trace Killing anything that twitches Posts: 1,427 Joined: Oct 2008 |
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.
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commish Lurker Posts: 244 Joined: Jun 2008 |
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).
Geoff: i've never had a sammich like this Geoff: its so good Dr. Commish: that recipe is yours forever now, keep it close and impress the lady of your dreams Geoff: YOU GODDIT DOCTAH JONES
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copulatingduck Following in Gordon's Footsteps  Posts: 7,518 Joined: Apr 2008 |
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 Ripped like paper raped with ease hey scrub nerd pyros suck on these |
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commish Lurker Posts: 244 Joined: Jun 2008 |
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
Geoff: i've never had a sammich like this Geoff: its so good Dr. Commish: that recipe is yours forever now, keep it close and impress the lady of your dreams Geoff: YOU GODDIT DOCTAH JONES
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commish Lurker Posts: 244 Joined: Jun 2008 |
10-24-2009, 04:57 PM
So btw how do I get steam running in linux?
Geoff: i've never had a sammich like this Geoff: its so good Dr. Commish: that recipe is yours forever now, keep it close and impress the lady of your dreams Geoff: YOU GODDIT DOCTAH JONES
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CaffeinePowered Mad Hatter Posts: 12,998 Joined: Mar 2008 |
10-24-2009, 05:03 PM
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Neonie The Alphabet has 24 Letters Posts: 1,167 Joined: Oct 2008 |
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] Wine [/quote] 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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Spore 2 guys, no cups necessary Posts: 2,587 Joined: Mar 2008 |
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.
Feeling generous? Karf is a respectable human being. http://i.imgur.com/MTVw5.png Thank you, Mr. Pelican. 
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copulatingduck Following in Gordon's Footsteps Posts: 7,518 Joined: Apr 2008 |
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. Ripped like paper raped with ease hey scrub nerd pyros suck on these |
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Neonie The Alphabet has 24 Letters Posts: 1,167 Joined: Oct 2008 |
10-25-2009, 06:40 AM
![[Image: d1b9498e356abbe6b41ef1af626dc34a.jpg]](http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a43/Sfiredragon/d1b9498e356abbe6b41ef1af626dc34a.jpg) You'll come back to her... they always come back..
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