HELP!!!! This has just started happening the past two weeks...
Our typical setup is a Dell PWS-390, which comes OEM with an NVidia NVS 285 (runs two monitors). We need three or four monitors. We could not get any ATI cards to give us a usable system, but we found a dual-port (VGA) card with NVidia 5200 chips on it that works - until lately! The scenario goes, a machine will crash. On startup, the black with WIN logo will show, but the 3 blue square moving across the screen will hang and remain hung. We pull the added NVidia 5200 card, and it boots. We put in a new NVidia 5200 card, and the system will not even acknowledge there is a new piece of hardware in the system... This is despite deleting ALL video cards in the device manager, doing a "scan for hardware changes", or even trying to run the Control Panel "New Hardware Wizard" applet. I can put in an ATI card, and it will work once. On successive reboots, that too will hang with the 3 squares (not) moving across the Windows logo screen. While I'm hunting for solutions, any ideas why a hardware setup which has worked for over a year would suddenly fail completely? I have visions of, while I'm either on vacation or at a networking "boot camp", all of our systems crapping out on us one-at-a-time. Well, time to go a-hunting! Thanks... -------------------------------------- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
