Help - Via 4-in-1 drivers screwed my system

[Jobe]

For some unknown reason I decided to install the latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers on my previously stable KT266a mobo with Winxp and everything went to *DELETED*. My video is now very jittery and the screen shakes vilolently. It apparently corrupted or uninstalled my video drivers (latest from nvidia) and I cannot get it back to its previous state. I have tried uninstalling the VIA drivers, ran a System Restore, but nothing has changed. It will not let me reinstall the Detonator drivers or even default ones from the Winxp CD... just comes with an error stating that "The parameter is incorrect." Also, at boot Windows File Protection kicks in and wants to replace the files the 4-in-1's destroyed... but it will not recognize my CD in any drive.

help


Please watch the language, i understand you are flustrated

GroundZero3

[jmatt]

1 . Try using Safe mode .

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2 . No luck , change bios to boot to cd 1st & repair XP .

Repairing XP
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_install.htm
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm
http://support.gateway.com/support/p...50959411.shtml
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=315341
http://www.wown.info/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm
http://www.wown.info/j_helmig/wxppasr.htm
http://www.theeldergeek.com/repairing_windows_xp.htm
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Jobe]

Thanks. I'll give that a try and hopefully get things back to normal.

[Jobe]

Wellp it took a turn for the worse I found out that the screen shaking was actually my monitor dying out. It started making some really bad buzzing noises and crackling, even with the computer turned off (so its not the vid card). I don't know how or if these drivers caused this, but I somehow doubt that it was just by coincidence that right after installing them it caused my monitor to go out. Still though, I could not recover my system. I tried repaing the Windows install, but it messed up during a 'registering' process and the setup just looped and never completed. Had to reformat Oh well, at least I was able to back up some stuff on my work hard drive... *sigh*