My friend has a geforce 7300 GS OC PCI-E video card. He had is computer running good when he went to view the cards temperature it told him he needed to download a new driver of some sort to use the temperature feature. After downloading and installing the driver it asked him to restart his PC. After loading his PC each time it reached the desktop it would auto restart over and over again each time he tried to load it.
He tried a few things we talked over the phone so I do not know exactly what he tried but his PC would start in safe mode fine. I tried to give him directions to uninstall all the geforce drivers in safe mode then reinstall them useing the disc but something must have gone wrong because now he is read to do a reformat which is the last thing he really wants to do? We have not tried system restore is that a good idea? How would a system restore be done properly in this scenario. He uses windows XP home I believe.
2007-10-06 18:00:10 · 6 answers · asked by Jay 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
So far many of your answers have been good. But how does one start a system restore? And are you sure all the files will be erased from a restore? I though a restore would only change a few things that happend sense the last recoreded restore or something?
Also I have used the same video card without any problems myself but it never asked me to install any other drivers for viewing the temperature. Thus the video card or its packaged drivers have been slightly altered sense when I got that card 2 years ago.
I will forward this info to my friend later I will leave more time for more answers and stuff.
2007-10-06 18:20:30 · update #1
As long as you have a restore point that is valid and before his screwup with the drivers it is safe to do that. After the restore, confirm that there are no problems. Then carefully put in the new drivers. If it fails again it is a driver problem and you will need another restore to that restore point. Then try contacting GEFORCE and see if they have had problems with them.
2007-10-06 18:06:52 · answer #1 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Computer is restarting because of "restart on system failure" is enabled in bios. Go into bios and disable this. Then boot to last known good system configuration which will roll back the driver. Then completely uninstall and remove the video card from the computer and make sure there is no other problems with the computer. Then install software and drivers from n Vidia exactly as in the instruction manual. You may also want to do some research on the compatibility with the specific computer and the video card and maybe it could be a common problem for others.
2007-10-07 01:14:40 · answer #2 · answered by Jerome54 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be sure to backup all of the data files. If it is possible, backup the mail box that may contain some useful information as well as the address book. To restore XP is pretty straight forward, follow the procedure step by step and the system will be back to the state as your friend bought the desktop. All of the files and data will be lost during the system restore. By the way, if the system came with HD partition, and the data files are in different, the data files will not be lost.
2007-10-07 01:12:41 · answer #3 · answered by Scott P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A re-installation of the OS is always fix things and start over fresh from the start, that way you'll get a cleaner system because you know what had causes the problems from the beginning.
My suggestion is to use Windows XP Pro instead of Home, because less and lesser drivers are released for XP Home nowadays.
2007-10-07 01:06:09 · answer #4 · answered by Dummy Dolls 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its worth to try using system restore.... maybe the driver has a bug or something... it uninstalling doesnt do it... even system restore... then last drastic measure is to backup important files then format.... dont install the software or driver again...
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