Continous reboot/restart loop?

Question

well, my brother bought this graphic card and a new mobo. and he installed the drivers for the graphic card, after that, it becomes unsuccessful and goes through a loop of contious reboot, ive tried safe mode, but it still reboots. any ideas?

ok, well, he added an old one, and right now its working, how would i delete the old graphic cards driver?

Answer 1

if it happened right after the driver install then i would gues its conflicting with the old graphics drivers .. uninstall/ disable onboard graphics ..

Answer 2

Since you can not open Windows, you can not do anything. If XP , use the self repair in Windows. http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=189400897

Reload drivers. BUT right before loading the graphics card driver, disable ALL startups in msconfig. Click start, click Run, type msconfig, OK. Select Startup tab, disable all, apply. You can enable all startups later in this same window.

If above does not work, the graphics card may be too powerful for the power supply. After loading the driver, its full functionality is enabled, thus drawing more power and possibly destabilizing the power supply, thus the reboot. You may have to get a bigger power supply unit.

Answer 3

This is common after changing hardware in your computer. The only way around it is to boot from your windows installation CD and watch closely for the option to Repair, not reinstall.

Here are some helpful instructions for you to do this.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

You won't lose your saved data or programs by doing the REPAIR. That will only happen if you do a reinstall.

Answer 4

try pressing F8 and changing to last good known configurations or sumthing like that
and even if that doesnt work
replace the whatever that u changed
its probably a driver's problem or the hardware doesnt support ur system