I have just read a great tutorial in these forums about a duel boot (Windows 7 / XP). MY question is about XP drivers.....after you have succeeded in installing XP as your other OS. Please tell me what I need to know about drivers as I am new to all this.Do I need to be in XP and find and download a whole bunch of Drivers?
View 1 RepliesI apologize in advance for asking the same question everyone else has been asking but with slightly different configs.I installed win 7 custom upgrade to new blank c drive from xp/ubuntu duel boot (d drive) using a networked cdrom.I want to remove xp/ubuntu duel boot drive completely and boot stand alone win 7 on c. I have read the numerous posts about running win 7 repair 3 times after activating the c drive win 7 partition but I have no cdrom to boot with on this system. Is there another way to repair win 7 on c to boot stand alone
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat it is, i'm trying to duel boot Win 7 and Vista, on another HD. But my system is a Inspiron 570 running Win 7 HP 64bit, and it is setup in the BIOS as a ACHI. When I run setup on Vista, I choose a Custom, where it asks for upgrade, but the upgrade is greyed out, because I'm doing a clean install, then a error dialog box comes up and says,
"Windows install encountered an unexpected error, Verify that you have the Installation source are accessible, and restart the installation".
ERROR CODE: 0XE0000100
The drive that I'm trying to install Vista on is a 80GB drive with no partitions.
I once tried to duel boot 7 and Xp (it did not work). I now have two options at boot, one of them being an earlier version of Win (that does not work) but I only want 7. The Xp install did not go through correctly because a scrached disc. Is it possible to accomplish this w/o re installing 7 completely?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have been asked the question is it possible to have two internal hdd system disks and select which one at start up
View 9 Replies View Relatedi would like an application or modification for windows seven that adds a second taskbar, this taskbar is on the top of the screen and monitors programs you may open, however it would be much better organized that the start bar (in fact it is more like the desktop, mabey even folding out to cover your screen too). It also has a start bar included for the messy stuff.
View 8 Replies View RelatedSo I upgraded to Windows 7 64 bit home edition. I am running a duel monitor setup, the primary monitor is a 24 inch monitor running at 1920 by 1980 and a 19 inch secondary monitor running at 1280 by 1024 (it's the highest resolution that monitor can do.) My video card is two SLI'd nvidia geforce 240 1gb cards.
Before I upgraded, I didn't have any issues with the two monitors (using extended desktop.) Now after the upgrade, the secondary monitor is not 'filling the screen'. It's squished the image up and is leaving one inch of the monitor on the left side empty. When you move the mouse between the two monitors it skips over that space as if it isn't there.
Now, it's not a fault with the monitor, I tried adjusting settings and the image remains squished. I also tried using the nvidia control panel to adjust the resolution manually but that doesn't seem to work either. I'm running the latest release version of nvidias drivers, haven't tried a beta yet.
Suggestions on how to get it to use the whole monitor again like it used to? Because this is really annoying.
Edit: Upon more fiddling, I have found it isn't using about half an inch of the screen on the right side of the monitor either. And the desktop is extended down below the base of the screen, though I cannot tell how far.
I am having to re-install the Bluetooth drive every time I start or re-boot the laptop. My laptop is a Fujitsu A531.
View 8 Replies View Relatedi am running a dual boot system with Vista 32 bit and Windows7 32bit
also using 190.62 nvidia driver on both,with samsung 20'' monitor in
16 x 10i play a game called silent hunter3 online and offline
if i play on vista the driver allows me to switch between 4.3 & 16x10
on windows7 it dosn't allow me to switch,it defaults to 4.3
the game in question is set to 1024x700 it can't be changed.there is some
fault with windows7 not useing the driver the way it should.
After uninstalling the ATI 10.11 drivers as they were causing crashes in Black Ops, Windows will no longer boot after restarting, it just goes straight to the recovery screen. I've tried starting in Safe Mode but it gets to the ATIpcie.sys and goes to the recovery screen again
View 7 Replies View RelatedMay I get boot driver for Hp Laptop ( Compaq 6710b )
View 1 Replies View Relatedi have a laptop. Been working on optimizing boot times. Found a 10 second gap where my computer is doing nothing. Uninstalling usb 3.0 host driver and hub controller fixes the problem but creates another. I cant use the 3.0 ports anynore. Not even with 2.0 usb. Is there a way to load these friver well after windows has started[CODE]
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm having an issue on my HP dm4-3090se Beats Edition laptop with Windows 7. It was working perfectly yesterday, but all of a sudden, it will not boot past the Windows Boot Manager. It gives an error:Quote :Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.2. Choose your language settings and then click "Next".3. Click "Repair your computer".If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAfter I installed Windows 7 64bit I found out that I had no sound so I went and download the latest driver for my Creative Labs X-fi Xtream gamer audio card. After I installed it and then restarted the regular "starting windows" came up for a few seconds but then went a way and loaded into the recovery manager where it wants to do a system restore, but I am stuck now in a loop of it trying to restore and then restarting with no progress. If the CL driver is the problem is there anyway I can get audio in windows 7 if the driver prevents me from starting up?
View 3 Replies View Relatedi have just installed windows 7 and downloaded a driver for my microsoft keyboard so my media buttons would work i got the driver from microsoft and after installed i was asked to restart. When i did my pc would nto boot up saying the cause was a recent software or driver change, however i can not even boot in safe mode to roll back driver.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSo this is not the first box I've built but it is the first time I have not been able to boot easily for so long. The symptoms are that it hangs at the windows logo on the start screen, most times. If I do a safe boot, then sometimes it will boot successfully afterwards.
I can play Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, watch movies but opening a picture would cause a BSOD. I fixed the last symptom by reseating the card and installing the latest driver (195.62) while only the vga monitor is connected. It still hangs at the start screen though on a cold boot.
I have used the Windows 7 mem test to confirm it's not memory. I have then done a boot log (ntbtlog.txt) and I can see the following lines repeated as it tries and retries to load drivers:
Did not load driver @hal.inf,%acpi_amd64.devicedesc%;ACPI x64-based PC
Did not load driver @cpu.inf,%intelppm.devicedesc%;Intel Processor
... (more of the previous line)
Did not load driver @oem6.inf,%nvidia_dev.05e3.01%;NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
This happened on the driver that came with the device too. I can tried repair installs and clean installs of my OS. I tried deleting the driver altogether and then letting windows load a driver for it and same result. Aside from sending the card into the manufacturer for testing, are there any ideas out there on what i can do?
Sadly, I am actually enjoying the challenge. Mostly because on the rare occasion I can boot normally and use my pc normally and leave it on for easy's sake.
It's my parents computer out in the living room, a Compaq Presario SR1135CL.
I installed an EVGA GeForce FX5600 Ultra to enable Aero and so that the computer will run at the monitors native resolution of 1366x768. The generics work fine, but then it only supports up to 1024x768 and no Aero.
Once I install the drivers and reboot the computer it goes to a blank screen after running through the boot screen. I ran updates and then tried it again with the same problem.
After a reboot it recommends startup repair, and startup repair reports that the problem cannot be repaired automatically.
I've installed in safe mode and in compatibility mode, almost any possible form of installing the drivers. I've tried doing it via Device Manager and pointing it to the directory that the installer package is extracted to, all with the same result.
It is important that I get this resolved because the computer is used mainly for work purposes and the low resolution of 1024x768 doesn't meet the requirements of the desktop real estate needed.
My friend has had this laptop for the past year or so, March 2010; and just recently her laptop decided to stop booting. Every time I try to boot windows it gives me a BSOD. All I have is the boot/repair disk from 2010; however it isn't working properly when I try to repair the OS or boot from the disk. It's a toshiba and it came with a repair program, but it also removes data on the HDD. Is there a link to a proper boot disk that I can maybe download to a flash drive and boot from there and repair? Or is there at least an easy way to pull the information off of her HDD before using the Toshiba program? Is it possible to just plug in the laptop to my computer, turn it on and access it from my personal computer? I also have an OEM version of Windows 7 from when I built my own computer, can I use that to repair her OS or will it recognize that it's not the same computer and fail? I know, lots of questions, you don't have to answer them in sequence, just tell me what would work best .
Note: She does NOT have a restore point on her laptop, I was able to get that far on my own before I decided to ask on this forum.
[code] Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot devic &press any key
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View 9 Replies View RelatedWe are just rolling Windows 7 out as we update machines. so far we have a dozen or so HP's (not my choice)with Windows 7. We are using Win2003 server as our File and Print.The printer causing issues is a RICOH Aficio MP using the latest C5000 PCL 5c driver.Our issue is on every cold boot on *most* machines first print of the day we get Error Message: "Do you trust this printer? Windows needs to download and install a software driver from the\servername computer to print to PRINTERNAME. Proceed only if you trust he\servername computer and the network, and then restart the print job."You add the driver, everytime, but makes no difference. Everything works fine for the day, if you hibernate the laptops and bring back to life, its fine.. but its only on a cold boot.Anyone got clues, it seems to be very common when googling,
View 1 Replies View Relatedwhen I turn on my pc I get the follolwing error message "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key".
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am having a problem starting my PC! I have to start it in the boot menu under the RAID option. If I do not do this a message saying "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.." comes up, and just keeps popping up regardless of what I press! I would try using my boot disk but for the life of me I can't find it, and as windows 7 was already installed on this computer when we got it 3 year ago, I can't accurately recall if it came with one!I am no expert on BIOS, but I have read other problems similar to this one, and know that if I don't have the boot disk or the OS disk, I will need to know that at least.I am curious if the (Hard drive) is the issue. The BIOS tells me that anything in parentheses is disabled from corresponding type menu.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI recently received a new laptop. After starting after time with no problems I received a blue screen with Verticle black stripes then it shut off. After attempting to reboot it I receive this error in a black DOS like screen.
"Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 (built 083)
Copyright (C) 1997-200 Intel Corporation
This Product is covered by one or more of the following patents:
US5,307459, US5,434,872, US5732,094, US6579,884, US6115,776 and
US6,327,625
Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller Series v120 (01/26/10)
PXE-M0F: ExitingPXEROM.
Reboot and select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device press a key"
i am facing problem while booting before Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot devic this screen is coming
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo ive been getting the black screen with movable cursor lately and have tried many a methods to remove it i tried checking in my event log for something, and this is waht it said "The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:dtsoftbus01" So what does this mean and how can i fix this?
View 4 Replies View Relatedwhere can i download the driver for the "BOOT MNGR missing" for windows 7? i cant find the start up disc
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen it crashes the cursor still moves and sometimes I can move windows around but then it all shuts down and sometimes briefly shows a blue screen of death. On reboot I sometimes get this message and have to reboot again. "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"It's a brand new box just built last week but no warranty and I would not even know what part to replace if it's hardware related.I've attached a Hijackthis to the post if it helps but I don't think it's virus related at all.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen left alone..."Reboot and select proper boot device or Insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"I have a new(ish) cpu that I bought last Christmas, it works great and it has not crashed on me whenever I am using it. However, when I leave it on overnight (usually when it is downloading something big), when I wake up in the morning I am greeted with a black screen with the words:"Reboot and select proper boot device or Insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"When this happens I simply press the power button a few seconds to turn it off, then turn it on again and it boots normally. (pressing a key only results in the message being repeated)What infuriates me is that it only ever happens when I leave it on overnight so I don't know when and how exactly it occurs but it almost always does. Like I said earler, it never does this when I am using it as it works fine otherwise. It just won't stay on overnight when I need it to.
System info:
Windows 7 ultimate x64 (full retail, installed once from scratch)
Intel core i7 4200k
Nvidia Gtx 560ti
16gb RAM
Seagate 500gb hdd for OS, 2Tb samsung and 1Tb seagate hdd for storage (all internal drives; no external drives attached)
Connected via hdmi to Pioneer receiver vsx 1121 then to 42" 720p Panasonic Plasma Tv