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Suddenly black screen on boot Windows ME works fine in safe mode

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First post, by m3stang

Posted on 2022-10-18, 17:24

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Hello All,

Fired up my PC for the first time in a while and after the Windows ME splash screen, the screen just goes black/no signal. Worked fine in the past and bought this GPU NIB earlier this year. I ran in safe mode and uninstalled drivers. I could not find a version of DDU that worked on windows ME. After going back to normal mode I now had a display with the generic driver. Reinstalled the ATi driver and after reboot, back to black screen. GPU dead maybe? I have another AGP gpu somewhere but by the time I find it in storage I could probably just order something else 🤣.

9600XT
Some motherboard I cant remember
P3 1Ghz
768 MB Ram

Reply 1 of 6, by RandomStranger

Posted on 2022-10-18, 17:45

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I had a similar problem with my FX5700. That one needed new caps.

If the card doesn't artifact and works overall fine with the generic Windows drivers, it's likely an easy fix like with my FX.

Reply 2 of 6, by m3stang

Posted on 2022-10-19, 12:52

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Hm ok interesting. I actually just remembered that I bought 2 that day. I am going to look for the other one, it was a 9600XT as well just not NIB.

Reply 3 of 6, by m3stang

Posted on 2022-11-03, 13:58

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Still have not found the other one yet but I inspected this one and it looks brand new (it was sealed earlier this year in box). Caps look great not sure what else it could be. Oh well I guess $90 down the drain.

Reply 4 of 6, by AlexZ

Posted on 2022-11-03, 17:32

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I tried Windows ME on my PIII rig but it always hanged during boot after installing NVidia driver (win9x version). Windows 98 works fine.

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Reply 5 of 6, by m3stang

Posted on 2022-11-03, 17:36

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AlexZ wrote on 2022-11-03, 17:32:

I tried Windows ME on my PIII rig but it always hanged during boot after installing NVidia driver (win9x version). Windows 98 works fine.

I had it using an Nvidia card and this card before just fine. It was sitting for a few months went to fire it up and this happened. Tried an XP drive I have and it makes it to the desktop but then locks up. I realized the DVI port had upwards force on it while it was stored thanks to my DVI to HDMI adaptor. Maybe that broke it.

Reply 6 of 6, by m3stang

Posted on 2022-12-11, 20:25

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Wanted to update this. I purchased a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 and it works fine now. Seems it was the card!

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