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...
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black screen
clean install
driver issues
error message
graphics card
hard drive
incompatibility
installation issues
mbr
motherboard
ntoskrnl
nvidia drivers
repartitioning
safe mode
system crash
system repair
upgrade
windows 7
windows vista