Windows XP refuses to load

January 11, 2007

I bought a new videocard to replace my aging Ati Radeon 9000 with 128MB of RAM; it’s an nVIDIA Geforce 6200 with also 128MB of RAM.

The funny bit: Linux loaded in CLI mode, I modified xorg.conf, and I was ready to go.

Windows XP refuses to load. At all.

Update: Well paint me polka-dot and call me a girly scout, but swapping the old and the new card did the trick. It all works now.

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  1. I thought linux would first try to hammer your Xorg in to loading and then show up a screen why GDM won’t start.
    Which is simply very user-hostile.

    Perhaps some systems needs to use kudzu(from redhat) which detects changes and then should makes the appropriate changes

    Comment by Mark Czubin — January 11, 2007 @ 3:34 pm

  2. Refuses to load? Can you give more detail? Is the screen just blanking out? what is it *not* doing? Giving error messages? does your motherboard have an onboard video card? is it reverting to it for some reason?

    Comment by helf — January 11, 2007 @ 3:44 pm

  3. This is my blog, not a bugzilla :).

    Anyway, there is no onboard video. It just gets to the boot screen (the black one with the logo) and after a while it gets stuck there (the three blocks of the progress bar stop moving). That’s it.

    Comment by Administrator — January 11, 2007 @ 3:51 pm

  4. Try booting in safe mode and remove the radeon driver. Switch to the vesa driver and then install the nvidia driver. I had similar problems a few years back. Hope it helps

    Comment by jeff — January 11, 2007 @ 4:08 pm

  5. Replacing the video card in Windows has these steps:

    * Uninstall nVidia software (reboot)
    * Delete Video Card from device manager (reboot..)
    * Before rebooting replace the card
    * Install new driver software

    If you cannot reinstall the old card, try booting in VGA or safe mode.

    If that too does not work, you may need to run the recovery console.

    Comment by sukru — January 11, 2007 @ 4:12 pm

  6. (it should be remove the ATI driver, I thought it was the new card)

    Comment by sukru — January 11, 2007 @ 4:13 pm

  7. (it should be remove the ATI driver, I thought it was the new card)

    Comment by sukru — January 11, 2007 @ 4:17 pm

  8. Do what Sukru said. Removing older hardware from the manager has helped me in my Win98 era… Also, install the driver from nvidia’s web site before you install the new card and then reboot.

    Also, make sure the card sits down well in the slot.

    Comment by Eugenia — January 11, 2007 @ 7:15 pm

  9. FYI, very soon (possibly with Xorg 7.3) you won’t have to edit xorg.conf and it will Just Work.

    The progress Xorg has made since its creation is amazing.

    Comment by thebluesgnr — January 18, 2007 @ 12:10 am

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