Recent content by opetero

OK filled out what I know. I have no documentation for this machine and there is currently no OS. ERD commander gives me limited info. BIOS: ami ver 0501 dated 06/29/2007 Powersupply: 400w 1.44 floppy installed to do bios upgrade. Also has multi memory card reader

As with vista the video works with the generic vga driver. This was confirmed during the win7 install by forcing it into safe mode. The video was ok but the install wouldn't complete in safe mode. It also wouldn't let me step out of the error message in order to muck around. If I knew which...

Thanks for responding :) That is what I think is needed as well, unfortunately I am located in a very remote place, no stores of any kind. Need to order video card on web and fly in by float plane. I have 1 computer coming back in a week or so from which I can rob the video card to try a swap...

I have been trying to get a friends computer running reliably off and on for over a month. The issue is an incompatability between vista, the mother board and video card. I did find a work around but it left the machine hamstrung. I had hopes a clean install of windows 7 would resolve the issue...