I just found an old HP Pavilion in my basement that hasnt been used in a while. I thought I would set it up. I formated the HD and install a fresh copy of XP Pro with Service Pack 2. Worked great as I was setting it up, and when Windows was first on.
I started downloading drivers from the HP site since I lost the CD. I found almost all of the drivers except for one. Then I restarted my computer. When I restarted it, by computer was stuck in 4-bit color depth. I checked out my freshly installed video adapter. It showed "Device was unable to allocate resources do to a memory conflict ". So my video card doesnt work at all. I called up HP tech support and they gave me drivers for the controllers that were still uninstalled, apparently they were causing the problems.
The first time I restarted my computer after that, things went great. Then I installed some software that required a restart. I restart my computer and I get this. My computer doesnt POST at all. It states at the top...
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Award Medallion BIOS c6.00pg Copyright Bla Bla
Copy right Hewlett packard Rev. 3.00 05/13/02
Main Processor : Atj;pm(tm) CP 2000+
(lot of black space, and then at the bottom)
Press F1 to enter SETUP 05/13/02-nVidia-CRUSH1-6A61AM49C
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Pressing F1 does nothing. The computer just sits here, COmpletely frozen. It doesnt even get as far as bitching because no keyboard is attatched.
I detached the power from the wall, let it sit without power for 2 hours, turn it back on, and it works.
Works awesome...until i restart it again. Now, I try my method above again...doesnt work this time. So I unplug it for 8 hours, then try again, still doesnt work, just freezes on the page i typed out above. Thats where I am now. Its just been sitting here. I have tried powering up and then powering down a dozen times with no results. Anyone have any ideas.
Thankyou.[code 12]". So my video card doesnt work at all. I called up HP tech support and they gave me drivers for the controllers that were still uninstalled, apparently they were causing the problems.
The first time I restarted my computer after that, things went great. Then I installed some software that required a restart. I restart my computer and I get this. My computer doesnt POST at all. It states at the top...
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Award Medallion BIOS c6.00pg
Copyright Bla Bla
Copy right Hewlett packard
Rev. 3.00 05/13/02
Main Processor : Atj;pm(tm) CP 2000+
(lot of black space, and then at the bottom)
Press F1 to enter SETUP
05/13/02-nVidia-CRUSH1-6A61AM49C
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Pressing F1 does nothing. The computer just sits here, COmpletely frozen. It doesnt even get as far as bitching because no keyboard is attatched.
I detached the power from the wall, let it sit without power for 2 hours, turn it back on, and it works.
Works awesome...until i restart it again. Now, I try my method above again...doesnt work this time. So I unplug it for 8 hours, then try again, still doesnt work, just freezes on the page i typed out above. Thats where I am now. Its just been sitting here. I have tried powering up and then powering down a dozen times with no results.
Anyone have any ideas.
Thankyou.
