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Author:  Wizard James [ Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:19 pm ]
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K heres in the votes are 3 things i can do.

Heres the story:
Computer crashed with some acpi error (my guess the videocard drivers got hooked with something and it did not unhook ) So i can move my harddrive to another computer and remove the drivers and any files that i dont need. Or i can do the same as 1 but not fix it , just move files over and reinstall xp. OR the third choice. Install a linux OS . its been awhile since iv used ubuntu so i might try that.
Author:  Gotcha! [ Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:17 pm ]
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4: Make a nice dualboot system with on one drive Linux and XP on another. :)
Author:  Roy-G-Biv [ Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:53 pm ]
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Copy everything wanted to another hard drive.
Then reinstall windows XP.
Then copy everything again.

So yeah, second choice.
Author:  Falcon X [ Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:06 pm ]
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What? If its a videocard driver, uninstall the driver.
Author:  Wizard James [ Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:38 pm ]
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Falcon X wrote:
What? If its a videocard driver, uninstall the driver.


I cant even get into windows, be it safemode or anything. and my windows live cd's have gone missing.
Author:  Ophanim [ Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:09 pm ]
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Grab a ♥♥♥♥ HDD you don't use, put your current main drive in a different slot, install Linux on ♥♥♥♥ HDD, grab ntfs3g from your packet manager and fix it from there.
Author:  Pencil_dude [ Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:45 pm ]
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I don't think it's the video card though,

acpi is a power management and hardware interfacing system.
I dont think fixing drivers is a option here, you can always fire up a linux live cd,
and copy all data you want to a backup drive.

then you can choose what to install.
Author:  Wizard James [ Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:49 am ]
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Pencil_dude wrote:
I don't think it's the video card though,

acpi is a power management and hardware interfacing system.
I dont think fixing drivers is a option here, you can always fire up a linux live cd,
and copy all data you want to a backup drive.

then you can choose what to install.


Yes, i thought that at first, but then did some google searching and found out its the video drivers.
Author:  Wizard James [ Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:21 pm ]
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Well I did a bit of backup, reinstalled and back again with only 9 gig so of my 120 gig C:/ drive used. not..9 gigs left :o

First reboot i got the same error.. i was just ♥♥♥♥. rebooted and skipped my motherboreds disk selection and seleted what disk to boot from. worked from there. So i guess its a bios thing. But i been updating drivers and apps all this morning.. If you know of any good apps that i should install, toss em down.
Author:  Ophanim [ Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:19 pm ]
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viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10747
Knew that thing would come in handy.
Author:  Pencil_dude [ Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:29 pm ]
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Did you recently try a bios update ?
if so try again, if not try to update to the newest bios version available.
Author:  WhefXLR [ Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:20 am ]
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Damn, only me and one other person want you to go with a Linux OS? I guess this forum doesn't have much experience with Linux...SINCE IT ROCKS ASS! What I would do is backup, reinstall, resize partitions and make a Linux drive.
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