I really hope so.
| Bob H: 7:16:39 PM | I'm suspecting that the OS is trying to load the drivers for your video card, that's why it won't boot normally. |
| You: 7:17:38 PM | well, like i said, i was running on my Radeon 6950 since january, but since the failure 3 days ago, i called the graphics card company ( because i thought it was GPU related ) and they told me to RMA the GPU, which i did :/ so now i remembered i had an older card in my other computer and tried with that card ( the geforce ), and it still doesnt work even though i had never connected it |
| Bob H: 7:18:11 PM | Even though you use a different card, the OS still tries to load the driver file on your PC. |
| You: 7:18:16 PM | oh well, i tried to uninstall / delete the driver |
| Bob H: 7:18:25 PM | I'm referring to that certain .sys file for your 6950 card. |
| You: 7:18:32 PM | okay So lets say thats the problem. What do i do ? i went into device manager, and uninstalled / deleted from there ( by the way, i'm still gonna need to figure out why my "device" is locked and cant perform any recovery methods on it ) |
| Bob H: 7:21:37 PM | Uninstalling it should already work. But what happens when you tried to uninstall it? |
| You: 7:22:02 PM | nothing.. it just.. uninstalled. it wasnt showing in my "manage devices" anymore |
| Bob H: 7:23:38 PM | Since Windows has these multiple issues, the driver might still be on the bootup list. I can definitely take care of this for you and even fix those problems with Windows. |
| Bob H: 7:39:34 PM | Going back to the issue, look for a way to completely disable the 6950 driver. I already gave you that hint earlier. |
| You: 7:40:28 PM | yes thank you for that, i'll try to navigate myself to safe land from there |
| Bob H: 7:40:53 PM | It's a .sys file, usually has the letters ATI to indicate it's from radeon. You can delete it or disable it from starting up using IT tools from Microsoft's technet site. I'm talking about this tool: Autoruns for Windows |
| You: 7:42:02 PM | Thank you very much Bob |
| Bob H: 7:42:29 PM | But read the EULA, if anything goes wrong because if misuse, you're basically on your own. That tool has no warranty, use it with extreme caution. |
| You: 7:43:16 PM | I will. Any hint about the device locked ? I looked on microsoft forums and nothing led me to believe anyone had a fix for it aside from the BCDedit command, which didn't work |
| Bob H: 7:43:53 PM | Do you have bitlocker enabled? |
| You: 7:43:56 PM | nope. |
| Bob H: 7:45:13 PM | You'll have to post a thread at the free forums. I'm suspecting it's permissions related. |