I hate bill gates

[Platypus_Corpse]

i got a new video card and moto board and of coarse winxp puked on me.
So all last night and all morning long i try to reinstall this crap when all i really want to do is play BF so i can try out the new video card :evil:
I can get it to start and install i can format whatever but it allways dies part way through. And now i have to go to work all damn day dont get off untill late tonight. Any ideas please post im geting lots of blue screen of death part way through install.

[EnsignPulver]

If you want a piece of Bill Gates, you will have to get in line behind me.

[Pongo647]

Hey Platypus, went through the same crap, no quick fix as far as I know. Pretty brave to switch them both at the same time! Good luck!

[Platypus_Corpse]

had to switch both its a pci express card my old borad is agp slot.
Now i have been on saving settings for 1o mins and it says it will be done in 2 mins for the whole time. :roll:

[odrater]

Did you try to install mobo first and make sure it worked?

Then i would install the card but make sure everything runs right first.

Did you get the BIOS loaded and updated ok?

Maybe you need to change a setting on the bios screen?

What motherboard is it?

(I don't want a piece of Bill Gates i want a piece of his inheretence after you kill him) :lol:

[Platypus_Corpse]

turns out u dont want to use a cdrw or dvd rw for your main cd rom to try and install wins i switched them and it went right in no probs YEAH YEAH now i have the power of nivida 7800 gtx oc with 2 gigs ram muhahaaaa :twisted: :D :) :lol: 8) :lol: :wink:

[Platypus_Corpse]

ok its up its working Bf2 is reinstalled but now i have to finally go to work. mumbles under breath and kicks rock on way to car :(

[psychodad]

Looks like you're up and running. You should be rockin' with that setup.

For future reference to anyone updating their motherboard, plan to re-install windows anytime you pop in a new mobo. There are so many board specific peices of software running (via drivers, ethernet, etc) that even if windows works without the re-install, you should do it anyway.

[Parasitic]

That and it's Microsoft's way of basically marking your windows xp install based on your hardware setup. Anytime you change hardware XP requires a reactivation because it now has a new Computer ID based on the hardware. Every PC has a unique Computer ID based on their configuration it's how they do this activation.

[TJf12]

yeah beaner is right ,till you fig a way around that crap lol.

[Platypus_Corpse]

yeah i had to crack the actavation thing again but i have a good crack tucked away for just that reason. I do actually have an org winxp dell install disk and a ligit instaill id but it wont work any more with out the crack. I thumb my nose at bill while i install a free copy of xp and then crack it :P

[odrater]

LOL Ya i reconfigured my comp a while ago and xp said there were some significant hardware changes ...you need to reregister...blah blah blah and that crap.

Anyway i never did reinstall my windows....that might be why my windows media player never works. I keep getting a error downloading codec everytime i try to play something.