pcjunkie429
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Hey y'all. Just thought that before giving up, I'd ask the opinions of the resident geeks/nerds (of which I am one, so no offense :lol:
) for some help for a friend.
He went to turn his computer (custom build that I actually did everything for except buy the parts, and this was about 2 years ago) on, and it gets to the Windows 7 start-up/splash screen, then blacks out. I've asked him to try everything I can think of, and Googled for myself the things I couldn't think of (which was useless, as most of the results I found were for laptops <_<), and still no luck. We've (well, me telling him) tried resetting the bios via the I/O CMOS button on the mobo, tried going into safe mode to get new video card drivers (got a "can't complete installation in safe mode" error), and tried to boot from the Windows install disk (which the computer completely freaking ignored for some odd reason, even when he changed the boot order to cd drive first), all to no avail.
HALP!!

He went to turn his computer (custom build that I actually did everything for except buy the parts, and this was about 2 years ago) on, and it gets to the Windows 7 start-up/splash screen, then blacks out. I've asked him to try everything I can think of, and Googled for myself the things I couldn't think of (which was useless, as most of the results I found were for laptops <_<), and still no luck. We've (well, me telling him) tried resetting the bios via the I/O CMOS button on the mobo, tried going into safe mode to get new video card drivers (got a "can't complete installation in safe mode" error), and tried to boot from the Windows install disk (which the computer completely freaking ignored for some odd reason, even when he changed the boot order to cd drive first), all to no avail.
HALP!!