Vid cards should load with the generic drivers, but untill you get the real ones installed shit will just react slow usually. Like someone said, check to make sure all cables are properly connected as well as hardware (especially the graphics card, make sure that is properly seated)


Had simmular problems in the past. Once when I replaced a video card it was just coming up black screen after a fresh install, checked the card, and yup, I fucked up, didn't properly get that sucker in there. Another time it had been my CPU that went boom, same crap, fresh install, and black screen, possibly a alert sound going off too. Hard to remember the specifics of two situations, and which one sounded an alarm or not heh..
RedLocks Reviewed by RedLocks on . windows xp install gone bad so something happened to my gaming pc and it basically went kaput. I dunno what happened to it. So anyways, I was trying to install win xp on it and basically after it installed, it asks you to reboot. after i did this, it rebooted but the screen stays blank. just a black screen. I have no idea why, and I have wrestled with trying to fix this pc for almost a year now. does anyone know why this would happen? I was thinking that maybe its because I have an awesome ati radeon video card Rating: 5