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grey screen on startup, add a device trouble!
Hi,
When I turn the power on, it logs in to a grey screen, (doesnt load up to the desktop) and "Add a device" pops up saying it has found a device, but doesnt say what device it is. I am thinking it might be the graphics card or motherboard?? (Coz it goes grey and goes into 640x480 mode). I try to put the cds in for the comp. to find the drivers, but windows refuses to search the CD drive, the CD drive doesnt even show on the file source list, only the hard-drives the A:\ drive and a couple of others. I also dont have the Windows ME disk, as a copy of it is meant to be on the hard-disk. As for the emergency restore floppy disk, it no longer works as I have upgraded my computer, and the last time I used it it made things 10x worse! (the disk didnt really recognise any of the new hardware so gave up i guess!) It must have happened when I moved alot of files from C:\ to another folder and also C:\WINDOWS to another folder (as I was trying to clear my computer out abit and would have thought all important files would belong to a folder!) However I managed to get into DOS and put everything back to their respective folders. Safe mode etc doesnt work, gets to the grey screen and nothing. I do have the cd's for the graphics card, motherboard etc, but because it doesnt say what device its found, and the reason why device manger wont attempt to read anything but the A:\ drive, there doesnt seem that there is alot I can do in this device found screen! I can press CTRL+Alt+Del to show what progs are running, but nothing is displayed. Please help! Thanks in advance, Steve |
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