Computer Won't Start at all

[crozier999]

Hi everyone,

I have recently been having many with my computer. Firstly, i was having problems with the SID where it says user profile cannot be loaded. After many hours i managed to fix this problem but i've recently got a new problem.

I Installed a new wireless network card into a pci slot and started the computer and it worked. As i hadn't had my computer working for a while i decided to update the video card driver and decided to check for updates for windows. I installed both the video card driver and windows updates and rebooted. But when the computer tried to start up all the fans started and the power light goes on but nothing happens.

I don't know whether the problem is with the new hardware, the driver update or the windows updates.

The computer won't start at all and i have some important work on it.

Could someone please help. Thanks.

 

[acdcfan]

Hi everyone,

I have recently been having many with my computer. Firstly, i was having problems with the SID where it says user profile cannot be loaded. After many hours i managed to fix this problem but i've recently got a new problem.

I Installed a new wireless network card into a pci slot and started the computer and it worked. As i hadn't had my computer working for a while i decided to update the video card driver and decided to check for updates for windows. I installed both the video card driver and windows updates and rebooted. But when the computer tried to start up all the fans started and the power light goes on but nothing happens.

I don't know whether the problem is with the new hardware, the driver update or the windows updates.

The computer won't start at all and i have some important work on it.

Could someone please help. Thanks.

I believe that it could be your video card.... If your fans come on, your MB is working. Do you have generic monitor plug on your mother board? If so try to plugin monitor and see if you get something.
If that doesn't work then pull your hard drive out and plug it in as a slave into another machine and get your data.
Try to get in the safe mode if you can.

 

[bruce2]

Have you try with your new hardware removed? May try system restore or repair. You may have to reinstall appropriate graphic driver while you are in safe mode.

 

[Marky1973]

Can you boot into safe mode? if you can uninstall the the device driver for the video card and reboot, if that doesn't work try turning the computer off and physically removing and re-installing the video card it may not be sitting in the pci port correctly.

 

[crozier999]

I have two graphics cards in sli formation, i then tried taking one out and using just one and so far it seems to be working

 

[Marky1973]

ok obviously you have had a issue with the video driver update that windows vista automatically did for you and that's messed up your sli setup, my advice is to download driver sweeper and the lastest driver for your video cards, go to nvidia website shutdown your pc and install the other video card again, start pc boot into safe mode uninstall any video driver already installed.
Reboot go back into safe mode again and force windows into using the standard vga driver run driver sweeper and reboot, then install the latest driver you downloaded earlie and you should be good, and in the future always install the video card drivers yourself because that will save you alot of problems.