Windows media player visualizations mam1/20/2024 ![]() If you choose the Quick format option, format removes files from the partition, but does not scan the disk for bad sectors. The scan for bad sectors is responsible for the majority of the time that it takes to format a volume. When you choose to run a regular format on a volume, files are removed from the volume that you are formatting and the hard disk is scanned for bad sectors. If you have surface errors on the hard disk, regular format will find them and block them out. When you reformat, don't choose the "quick" option and do a full format. I wish I had a regular pci video card to use. How can it reject MCE when it was an MCE PC to start, and how is that possible anyway? I'll try installing the pci-e card again tomorrow. ![]() Even watching the Windows Media Player visualization on full screen with all the appearance settings turned up it looks fine. So I went and reformated again with XP Home and a genuine key that I had bought a few years ago, and now the onboard card is working again, better than ever. I was using XP MCE with the OEM key, because that's what it was supposed to be. I don't know why, but I thought it might be software related. I could view the bios screen and the windows logo, then it would go blank at the welcome screen except for a pencil thin line at the top. The onboard graphics went out last night, kinda. I've done it dozens of times and have installed aftermarket graphics cards in 3 other PCs with total success. ![]() I just wanted her to have a nice PC without all the gateway crap. I was reformatting it using an OEM MCE 2005 disk with the original key on the case for my mom who bought it from a coworker for fairly cheap. If you can NOT see BIOS (or anything upon bootup) then it's either:Īre you overclocking anything in the BIOS, the CPU, RAM, or the pci-e speed?Ībsolutely not. If you can see BIOS then it sounds like a Windows software issue. Question: When you say the card doesn't work, does it mean Windows shows nothing or that you can not eve see BIOS? You should also either borrow another PCIe card or put your PCIe card in another computer.Ī third option is to get another hard drive, remove your current Windows drive physically by removing both connectors and start (but not Activate) the Windows installation. You'll need to go into Ubuntu settings and locate the name of the graphics card to confirm but if your PCIe card is there then it's a software issue, not a hardware or BIOS issue. Your BIOS boot order must have your CD/DVD device before the hard drive in the boot order. Then boot from the CD (don't install it). Since it's not much effort, download and burn a copy of Ubuntu.
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