re: Suicidal windows: black screen after hardware swap and back again
Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 9:40 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Danny
(2 messages posted)
Thanks for the reply.
After much swearing at the computer I finally found out what was at fault. I tried
all the repairs I could think off. What was odd was the event logs did not indicate
a problem, as might be expected if a driver was not being loaded.
I felt the problem lay with the video card so in desperation I swapped out the card
for another (Viper 550), installed new drivers and now W2k in a happy puppy again.
The power cuts and fluctuations that took out the PSU appear to have also killed
the video card. The Linux video driver must do things differently to the W2k driver.
I guess I was too quick to blame Windows. I have moved a hard disk with 98 to another
machine and watched it make a song and dance about finding new hardware. Once bitten,
twice shy. I didn't know that W2k/NT would not adapt to changes of hardware (I can
think of reasons why this would be a good thing.)
Keeping Linux and W2k on different disks is much better, but being an old machine
the BIOS doesn't have that selectable boot option (or at least I've never come across
it!) and I didn't want to spend money on extra disks. The two seem well behaved and
until now I've never had a problem. I use GRUB for booting and it works great. I
think the very first time W2k saw the GRUB bootblock it choked. That was years ago
and I can't remeber how I fixed it now...
I didn't know that about W2k 48 bit LBA. Useful to know. I don't think it'll ever
be an issue for this machine. I have a large disk in another machine that is Linux
only and it handles them quite happliy.
Thanks again.
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