The Official ETW Hardware Problem Solving Thread

**Bornslippy** · 03-05-2009, 10:30

I've had one CTD the first time a naval battle was flagged in a campaign. Hasn't recurred.

Otherwise, generally OK, although one interesting bug in that the screen pans when I move the mouse to the left border, but not when I move it to the right and on to the second monitor...

Running - two 1900x1200 screens on a GTX295 12GB Vista 64bit I7 system

[edit - and yes this is apparently my first post even though I have been here for over four years!)

**Subotan** · 03-05-2009, 20:11

I haz a general hardware problem.
So I buy the graphics card Lemur recommended, and I proceed to take out the old gt 7600 geforce I had; without uninstalling it. I realise my mistake and slot it back in, only to discover to my horror that I need to “select a proper boot device”. I figure that means the instalation Cd that came with the original card, but I threw that out years ago. Hoping for the best, I put my new card in anyway, to no avail. Any ideas on how I can get out of this?

**quadalpha** · 03-06-2009, 16:21

Originally Posted by Subotan

I haz a general hardware problem.
So I buy the graphics card Lemur recommended, and I proceed to take out the old gt 7600 geforce I had; without uninstalling it. I realise my mistake and slot it back in, only to discover to my horror that I need to “select a proper boot device”. I figure that means the instalation Cd that came with the original card, but I threw that out years ago. Hoping for the best, I put my new card in anyway, to no avail. Any ideas on how I can get out of this?

What happens when you put your new card in?

**Barkhorn1x** · 03-06-2009, 17:18

Originally Posted by Subotan

I haz a general hardware problem.
So I buy the graphics card Lemur recommended, and I proceed to take out the old gt 7600 geforce I had; without uninstalling it. I realise my mistake and slot it back in, only to discover to my horror that I need to “select a proper boot device”. I figure that means the instalation Cd that came with the original card, but I threw that out years ago. Hoping for the best, I put my new card in anyway, to no avail. Any ideas on how I can get out of this?

Boot it in safe mode - clean out any old driver remnants. Then reboot and Windows should be in 680x800 rez at this point. Then you install your new drivers and you should be all set.

**Subotan** · 03-06-2009, 18:11

Ok, so I realise that it was due to the hard drive cable falling out whilst putting my new card in (HURR DURR), but I have a new problem. I was able to boot up windows, and uninstall the nvidia driver and disable the motherboard graphics driver, as the instructions told me to do. However, I now have a new problem, as when I boot up with the new card in I have a horribly trippy mess, which is impossible to use, and when I use the motherboard directly, I find that all I get is a black screen upon getting to the login screen (I suspect that the same thing appearsd behind the trippy mess as well.). Any ideas on how to solve this conundrum? A reply as quickly as possible would be very much appreciated, and everyone who helps will get a balloon, and the person who solves this for me will be showered with baloons.