Omega Drivers Screwed Me Over

St8ic · 05-April-05, 10:19 PM

I build a new rig (exact specs in my sig), and it booted fine!

I installed XP using my SATA drivers on a floppy disk, all went great. It booted into XP perfectly and I installed the motherboard drivers without a problem. Then, I have this bright idea. Maybe since I have a GeForce FX 5200, the omega drivers would be a nice touch? So I go ahead and download them.

When I run the install, the moniter loses the signal and goes black. The hard drive grinds for a REALLY long time and it's trying to read something from the CD drive? So I reboot using the reset switch. Nothing. The hard drive light stays on but no post. I do a cold reboot. The thing picks up now, but complains that something went wrong and I need to set the CPU speed, so I do. It manages to boot into XP alright, but when I right-clicked on the desktop it pulled that crap again. I pop my XP CD back in so I can re-install XP with the stock video card driver. It gets into the install, but once it gets to the point where it should load the SATA drivers from the floppy, it pulls that crap again.

So did the omega drivers **** my computer completely? Anyone have any tips or experience? Thanks so much.

St8ic · 05-April-05, 11:20 PM

Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions?

I think it's the SATA hard drive, not the video drivers. Maybe it was just a problem when the drive tried to write the drivers to the disk, now it's messed up? Because unless video drivers could do damage to the video card it's self, it couldn't cause a booting/bios problem. Anyway.....please help. Please!

$SOLID$ Necro · 05-April-05, 11:47 PM

Did you remove the old drivers in the PROPER order?

From add remove programs in XP, remove in order: ATI Control Panel first, then the Omega/ATI drivers, then delete the old ATI file from the C drive, then run Driver Cleaner.

Reboot, run disk clean up and install new drivers.

RBIEZE · 05-April-05, 11:52 PM

can you roll back xp or if not uninstall the vid drivers and try installing the 66.93 nvid drivers(im not sold on the 71.84 yet).

St8ic · 06-April-05, 10:23 AM

There was no video driver before hand though. Just the "default VGA driver".

Could a video driver cause it to not post and reboot during re-install though?

$SOLID$ Necro · 06-April-05, 04:58 PM

Possibly, would be a bit unusual though..can you hit F-8 and get into safe mode during boot up?

St8ic · 06-April-05, 07:41 PM

I just cleared the BIOS and re-installed Windows XP......I installed service pack 1 but as soon as it was done it did that again. Hard drive light stays on and monitor loses signal. Maybe a bad motherboard, hard drive or SATA driver?

What should I do once I get into safe mode? I assume you mean uninstall the video driver, but as I said I formatted it and discovered that the omega driver wasn't the problem.

05-April-05, 10:19 PM		#1 (permalink)
St8ic Apex Master Tech Apprentice	Omega Drivers Screwed Me Over I build a new rig (exact specs in my sig), and it booted fine! I installed XP using my SATA drivers on a floppy disk, all went great. It booted into XP perfectly and I installed the motherboard drivers without a problem. Then, I have this bright idea. Maybe since I have a GeForce FX 5200, the omega drivers would be a nice touch? So I go ahead and download them. When I run the install, the moniter loses the signal and goes black. The hard drive grinds for a REALLY long time and it's trying to read something from the CD drive? So I reboot using the reset switch. Nothing. The hard drive light stays on but no post. I do a cold reboot. The thing picks up now, but complains that something went wrong and I need to set the CPU speed, so I do. It manages to boot into XP alright, but when I right-clicked on the desktop it pulled that crap again. I pop my XP CD back in so I can re-install XP with the stock video card driver. It gets into the install, but once it gets to the point where it should load the SATA drivers from the floppy, it pulls that crap again. So did the omega drivers **** my computer completely? Anyone have any tips or experience? Thanks so much.

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05-April-05, 11:20 PM		#2 (permalink)
St8ic Apex Master Tech Apprentice	Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions? I think it's the SATA hard drive, not the video drivers. Maybe it was just a problem when the drive tried to write the drivers to the disk, now it's messed up? Because unless video drivers could do damage to the video card it's self, it couldn't cause a booting/bios problem. Anyway.....please help. Please!

05-April-05, 11:47 PM		#3 (permalink)
$SOLID$ Necro Mastah Overclocker	Did you remove the old drivers in the PROPER order? From add remove programs in XP, remove in order: ATI Control Panel first, then the Omega/ATI drivers, then delete the old ATI file from the C drive, then run Driver Cleaner. Reboot, run disk clean up and install new drivers.

05-April-05, 11:52 PM		#4 (permalink)
RBIEZE Apex Tech Demi-God	can you roll back xp or if not uninstall the vid drivers and try installing the 66.93 nvid drivers(im not sold on the 71.84 yet).

06-April-05, 10:23 AM		#5 (permalink)
St8ic Apex Master Tech Apprentice	There was no video driver before hand though. Just the "default VGA driver". Could a video driver cause it to not post and reboot during re-install though?

06-April-05, 04:58 PM		#6 (permalink)
$SOLID$ Necro Mastah Overclocker	Possibly, would be a bit unusual though..can you hit F-8 and get into safe mode during boot up?

06-April-05, 07:41 PM		#7 (permalink)
St8ic Apex Master Tech Apprentice	I just cleared the BIOS and re-installed Windows XP......I installed service pack 1 but as soon as it was done it did that again. Hard drive light stays on and monitor loses signal. Maybe a bad motherboard, hard drive or SATA driver? What should I do once I get into safe mode? I assume you mean uninstall the video driver, but as I said I formatted it and discovered that the omega driver wasn't the problem.