code 10 error...
code 10 error...
sorry i haven't posted her in a while but i need your help
what has happened is basically my old hard drive started to die (write failures etc.) so i have cloned it to a new drive. after some initial teething problems, it now boots fine and works as expected, except now in the device manager (i should probably mention im using win xp) it reports a "code 10 device cannot start" error on my graphics card, which is an nvidia geforce 8800gts. after reinstalling the drivers and also letting windows update have a go, i cannot see anything else to do with it. also, throughout this i am actually using the very same graphics card to use windows, albeit the display doesn't refresh too quickly; ie there is no smooth movement when i drag a window for example.
any ideas guys? google has been relatively useless on this one.
what has happened is basically my old hard drive started to die (write failures etc.) so i have cloned it to a new drive. after some initial teething problems, it now boots fine and works as expected, except now in the device manager (i should probably mention im using win xp) it reports a "code 10 device cannot start" error on my graphics card, which is an nvidia geforce 8800gts. after reinstalling the drivers and also letting windows update have a go, i cannot see anything else to do with it. also, throughout this i am actually using the very same graphics card to use windows, albeit the display doesn't refresh too quickly; ie there is no smooth movement when i drag a window for example.
any ideas guys? google has been relatively useless on this one.
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Hi Gazzer,
When you cloned the new disk and then started using it as your primary boot disk did you make sure that it was configuer exactly the same way as the old disk - i.e. same disk channel and master/slave etc. - could possibly be a resource conflict....
When you cloned the new disk and then started using it as your primary boot disk did you make sure that it was configuer exactly the same way as the old disk - i.e. same disk channel and master/slave etc. - could possibly be a resource conflict....
Jim
.....I'm Sorry But I Can't Do That Dave.....
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I thought I had.... I'll go back and swap the sata cables round and see if that makes a difference! I'm pretty sure the old one didn't have jumpers on it but i'll dig it out and see if it did, thanks
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Prrobably won't have jumpers involved with SATA (other than SATA Version/Compatibility) - just make sure it's on the same physical cable......gazzer wrote:I thought I had.... I'll go back and swap the sata cables round and see if that makes a difference! I'm pretty sure the old one didn't have jumpers on it but i'll dig it out and see if it did, thanks
Jim
.....I'm Sorry But I Can't Do That Dave.....
.....I'm Sorry But I Can't Do That Dave.....
just swapped sata cables between the 2 drives and it is still the same. i seem to remember taking a jumper out of a drive but i cn't remember which one...
basically when i swapped them all round it went like this:
old HD taken out and cloned to new HD, new HD put in in its place.
second HD was an IDE and has also been replaced at the same time by a new HD which is a sata drive.
so i went from having 1 200gb sata and 1 40gb IDE to having 1 500gb sata and 1 80gb sata. could the problem lie in there somehwere?
basically when i swapped them all round it went like this:
old HD taken out and cloned to new HD, new HD put in in its place.
second HD was an IDE and has also been replaced at the same time by a new HD which is a sata drive.
so i went from having 1 200gb sata and 1 40gb IDE to having 1 500gb sata and 1 80gb sata. could the problem lie in there somehwere?
hehe i've already tried it without the second HD as i had a theory maybe my psu didn't have enough power.... but it still did the same. and even if the cloned files were corrupt, i've reinstalled the graphics card drivers numerous times and also taken it out, made sure there were no dusty or faulty connectors and replaced it again... not looking good :/
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...always worth a shot the old VS
Is this XP ? if so don't forget you can boot from the installation CD and attempt a repair of the system files without the need for a reformat and I "think" that you can probably even reinstall Windoze without a reformat but may be wrong.....
You can also F* into the boot menu and tell XP to log the boot process - the log file may have more info on the problem and where it occurs during the boot process.....
Is this XP ? if so don't forget you can boot from the installation CD and attempt a repair of the system files without the need for a reformat and I "think" that you can probably even reinstall Windoze without a reformat but may be wrong.....
You can also F* into the boot menu and tell XP to log the boot process - the log file may have more info on the problem and where it occurs during the boot process.....
Jim
.....I'm Sorry But I Can't Do That Dave.....
.....I'm Sorry But I Can't Do That Dave.....
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