Suicidal windows: black screen after hardware swap and back again
Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 11:49 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Danny
(2 messages posted)
I have an old machine that I dual boot Linux and 2000 from the same hard disk. I
mostly use Linux and keep w2k for stuff that demands Windows. Last week the PSU died
so I borrewed a computer from a friend and swapped in my disk and powered up.
Linux, of course, booted up just fine and I didn't have to tweak a single thing.
And it does not alter any of its configuration files.
I accidentally booted 2000 on this different machine. To my surprise it booted partway
and stopped with some error. Sorry, I didn't write it down as I hadn't thought it
would have been an issue. I rebooted back to Linux and thought nothing more of it.
I fixed the PSU, put the disk back into the original machine. Linux boots up perfectly.
But when I boot 2000 at the point where the desktop should appear it shows a black
screen and does nothing else.
I can go to safe mode and VGA mode and they work, albeit in VGA mode.
Video card is ELSA Erasor III (TNT2).
I can set the refresh rate and see from the monitor that it is being used. I've set
hw acceleration to off. I've reinstalled the TNT2 driver. I've gone though repairing
via the 2000 install CD.
There have been no hardware changes (other than the PSU).
What happened? And, more importantly, how can I fix this without going through the
pain of reinstalling everything.
And why did it alter it's configuration without asking? Grrr.
Thanks.
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