VGASave

Discussion in 'Video Cards, Displays and TV Tuners' started by megafr0, Aug 30, 2006.

  1. megafr0

    megafr0 Geek Trainee

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    Since its my display I'm putting this in this section. Since I think the source of the problem is my mobo I am posting there as well. Sorry for the double post! I am not a spammer :x:

    Before I start let me clarify that I have searched many threads and tried countless things. That said I am not posting BEFORE I searched all the current threads for my problem.

    System Specs
    Gigabyte GA-k8NSC 939 Nforce-3
    AMD 64 +3800
    BFG Geforce 7800 AGP
    1gig Atlas Ram, 256X2 Corsair XMS Ram 1.5gigs
    Windows XP Home (now with Sp2...)

    MY system will not get out of VGAsave mode. I would like to state that this system has functioned entirely fine for over 2-3 months with the exact specs. What happened was a couple of days ago I had a problem with my network driver after installing a clean version of Torrent (I am never using P2P's again!) I uninstalled all gigabyte drivers except my display driver and rebooted to reinstall my default drivers from the manufacturer disk. VGAsave mode comes up and I R screwed!

    I reinstalled windows 3 times, with a clean partition specifically for Windows (leavng my other two gaming/storage partitions alone), installed all current updates, installed LATEST gigabyte chipset drivers, including bios, tried F8 to force boot into VGA mode, I cannot install my Video card because it says it does not exist. I took out the card, cleaned it and put it back in, cleaned the system and checked for any loose connections, I know it has something to do with that bad network driver and when I reinstalled, something got corrupt. I used Driver cleaner (Latest version) to remove any and all drivers with the word Nvidia attached to them (including the Nforce3 drivers) Apparently I may have a conflict on my system resources, I will post the conflicitng device list in next post (this is my laptop).

    Please somone help me!!! :-( :-( :-(

    This is the conflict under vgasave driver properties. I'm hopins this is the problem... and that my mobo isnt permananty screwed into thinking my vid card is fux0red. Both my I/O range's and my memory range show a conflict.

    Input/Output Range 03B0 - 03BB used by:
    NVIDIA nForce3 250 AGP Host to PCI Bridge
    Input/Output Range 03C0 - 03DF used by:
    NVIDIA nForce3 250 AGP Host to PCI Bridge
    Memory Range 000A0000 - 000BFFFF used by:
    NVIDIA nForce3 250 AGP Host to PCI Bridge
     
  2. Willz

    Willz MiCrO$oFt $uK$ :D

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    You said you Re-Installed Windows 3 times, did you do an upgrade or a complete fresh install and formatted the partition with Windows on? Maybe try resetting CMOS?,you see on the Mobo there is a round battery?, just to the bottom left of that there is 2 pins, put a jumper on that, turn the comp on for about 3 seconds, turn the computer off and then take the jumper off, see if that solves it.
     
  3. megafr0

    megafr0 Geek Trainee

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    yeah I popped the cmos mobo battery. Clean install (not upgrade) on cleanly refrotmatted NTFS created partitions after using Partition Magic.
     
  4. Willz

    Willz MiCrO$oFt $uK$ :D

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    Hmmm, you tried resetting CMOS too, maybe taking battery out reset it though.

    I am intrested to know what it might be, i aint sure, someone else might know though :)
     

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