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xyzunit

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System Specs
Processor Core 2 Duo e6300 @ stock
Motherboard BioStar TForce965PT
Cooling Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Memory G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Video Card(s) eVGA Geforce 7900GS 256MB GDDR3 PCI-E
Storage WD Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
Display(s) Hanns G. 22" LCD
Case Antec SONATA II
Audio Device(s) Onboard 8-Channel
Power Supply 450W Smartpower 2.0
Software Windows XP Pro
I have an evga 7900gs, and I just recently replaced my RAM and hard drive in my system, so I had to reinstall windows. Back in the day when I first built my system, I had a lot of instability and a lot of it seemed to come from my graphics card overheating. After this fresh install of windows, I figured I would try to lower the clock speeds on my card to make my cooling issues a thing of the past.

I set the clock speeds to (i think) 500 core/660 mem (those were the default 2D speeds). Now whenever I boot up I see the POST screen and then after that I don't see a damn thing. Everything just goes black. I know windows loads because I pressed the windows key and did a shutdown with my keyboard, but I have no idea how to get my clock speeds back to default so that I can actually use windows.

Please please please, does anybody have a solution that could remedy this problem that doesn't involve reinstalling windows?
 
Try to blind boot into safe mode. Should force VGAsave drivers, if it works at least you'll have gotten into windows to try and figger out what went wrong.
 
you havent given anywhere near enough information.

How did you change the clock speeds? at what point does the image on the screen go blank?
 
I changed the clock speeds by creating a new profile in AtiTool.

The image on the screen goes blank after the motherboard logo screen.



PS; i updated my system specs just now
 
Silverel said:
Try to blind boot into safe mode. Should force VGAsave drivers, if it works at least you'll have gotten into windows to try and figger out what went wrong.
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can i get a little bit of guidance on this? is it f10 to get to the screen where you choose safe mode, and is there a hotkey i can press to make sure im selecting safe mode?


oh and I used atitool version .26 and i have windows xp home edition 32bit
 
xyzunit said:
I changed the clock speeds by creating a new profile in AtiTool.

The image on the screen goes blank after the motherboard logo screen.



PS; i updated my system specs just now
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your problem is unrelated to the windows overclocking.

Silverel is going on the wrong track assuming your windows OC is causing the problems, but the windows OC cant have any effect *BEFORE* windows has loaded.

Your problem is somewhere else, and its a hardware fault - be it the video card is damaged, or the screen.
 
Mussels said:
your problem is unrelated to the windows overclocking.

Silverel is going on the wrong track assuming your windows OC is causing the problems, but the windows OC cant have any effect *BEFORE* windows has loaded.

Your problem is somewhere else, and its a hardware fault - be it the video card is damaged, or the screen.
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He's right. It was just the first thing that came to mind. Everything else I was thinking... well. You broke something real good...
 
But then why would my problem only occur after I used the software, and why would I still be able to see the logo screen. Oh and did I mention I can still dick around with my BIOS?
 
F8 should get you to your boot options, boards tend to differ though. If you get nothing after that, there's not a lot else you can do.
 
xyzunit said:
But then why would my problem only occur after I used the software, and why would I still be able to see the logo screen. Oh and did I mention I can still dick around with my BIOS?
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because the screen resolution changes after that point.

lets say we make an assumption that somethings broken (screen, Video card, cable between the two, whatever) - whatever it is, its not liking the resolution changing upwards. as soon as it changes up to a high resolution, the screen loses its signal.
 
Mussels said:
because the screen resolution changes after that point.

lets say we make an assumption that somethings broken (screen, Video card, cable between the two, whatever) - whatever it is, its not liking the resolution changing upwards. as soon as it changes up to a high resolution, the screen loses its signal.
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Ah, that's where it makes sense for me. Even at the Windows loading screen, it wouldn't necessarily have your video drivers loaded right away. Therefore, letting it load default drivers shouldn't matter.
 
Alright well I'll experiment more with your suggestions tonight and then hopefully post back here tomorrow.
Thanks so far, you guys have been awesome.
 
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