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Downloaded the drivers from the CD and on reboot after driver install
I hang up and cannot do anything. Even in safe mode it locks up and
trying to boot from the CD i get Matrix like movement accross my
screen. Is there any hope?? I was going to uninstall drivers but I
cant do anything.

I'm not aware of any camera driver that can do that. Sounds very much like
a virus to me. You say it locks up in safe mode, but how long before it
does this? Any chance of being able to activate your anti virus software
and let it do a system scan before it locks?




"bill" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> Downloaded the drivers from the CD and on reboot after driver install
> I hang up and cannot do anything. Even in safe mode it locks up and
> trying to boot from the CD i get Matrix like movement accross my
> screen. Is there any hope?? I was going to uninstall drivers but I
> cant do anything.

>I'm not aware of any camera driver that can do that. Sounds very much like
>a virus to me. You say it locks up in safe mode, but how long before it
>does this? Any chance of being able to activate your anti virus software
>and let it do a system scan before it locks?
--->snip<----

It's also possible that the video card either is loose in the socket
or decided to fail. I had a similar thing happen where I installed
new software for a device and after a reboot nothing worked right.
Finally thought about how I had run the connectors for the physical
connection for the device and realized I had jiggled the video
connections. Pulled the vid card and reseated and voila, problem
solved.

I realize it's a long shot, but what the hey, why not give it a shot.

Drifter

Well, my antivirus was coming up before it locked up in safemode, and
found nothing. The thing is, no problems ever, and when the drivers
were installed from the cd, you had to restart to get installation
complete, and that is when it happened. Now I cannot even hit f8 and
get to the safe mode anymore, just a blank screen. I tried booting
with the floppy and it doesnt do anything there, either, just a blank
screen...I am beginning to fear i will have to reformat and start all
over. About all I can do is get to the bios.

"GAH" <> wrote in message news:<mUNGb.1355$ nk.net>...
> I'm not aware of any camera driver that can do that. Sounds very much like
> a virus to me. You say it locks up in safe mode, but how long before it
> does this? Any chance of being able to activate your anti virus software
> and let it do a system scan before it locks?
>
>
>
>
> "bill" <> wrote in message
> news: om...
> > Downloaded the drivers from the CD and on reboot after driver install
> > I hang up and cannot do anything. Even in safe mode it locks up and
> > trying to boot from the CD i get Matrix like movement accross my
> > screen. Is there any hope?? I was going to uninstall drivers but I
> > cant do anything.

>Well, my antivirus was coming up before it locked up in safemode, and
>found nothing. The thing is, no problems ever, and when the drivers
>were installed from the cd, you had to restart to get installation
>complete, and that is when it happened. Now I cannot even hit f8 and
>get to the safe mode anymore, just a blank screen. I tried booting
>with the floppy and it doesnt do anything there, either, just a blank
>screen...I am beginning to fear i will have to reformat and start all
>over. About all I can do is get to the bios.

Though it is coincidental with your software installation attempt I wouldn't
rule out a hardware problem.

"bill" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> Downloaded the drivers from the CD and on reboot after driver install
> I hang up and cannot do anything. Even in safe mode it locks up and
> trying to boot from the CD i get Matrix like movement accross my
> screen. Is there any hope?? I was going to uninstall drivers but I
> cant do anything.

Use the boot floppy or CD that you made when you installed your AV software.

--
Tumbleweed

Remove theobvious before replying (but no email reply necessary to
newsgroups)

This is an "after the fact" thing and won't help you at this moment, but for
future consideration, think about getting a program such as "Go Back". It
runs in the background taking snapshots of your system so if something on
the software or OS side goes nutty, you can tell it to take your system back
to an earlier time. This program works much better than Windows "system
restore" feature, because it does not require the computer to be fully
booted up to work... it appears immediately after you turn your computer on,
and allows you 3 seconds to hit your space bar to activate it.

Again, won't help you now, but it might be of help for future problems.


Greg



"bill" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> Well, my antivirus was coming up before it locked up in safemode, and
> found nothing. The thing is, no problems ever, and when the drivers
> were installed from the cd, you had to restart to get installation
> complete, and that is when it happened. Now I cannot even hit f8 and
> get to the safe mode anymore, just a blank screen. I tried booting
> with the floppy and it doesnt do anything there, either, just a blank
> screen...I am beginning to fear i will have to reformat and start all
> over. About all I can do is get to the bios.
>
> "GAH" <> wrote in message
news:<mUNGb.1355$ nk.net>...
> > I'm not aware of any camera driver that can do that. Sounds very much
like
> > a virus to me. You say it locks up in safe mode, but how long before it
> > does this? Any chance of being able to activate your anti virus
software
> > and let it do a system scan before it locks?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "bill" <> wrote in message
> > news: om...
> > > Downloaded the drivers from the CD and on reboot after driver install
> > > I hang up and cannot do anything. Even in safe mode it locks up and
> > > trying to boot from the CD i get Matrix like movement accross my
> > > screen. Is there any hope?? I was going to uninstall drivers but I
> > > cant do anything.

> I tried booting
>with the floppy and it doesnt do anything there, either, just a blank
>screen...

Ok, if you cannot even boot to a floppy then this has nothing to do with your
windows installation. You have a hardware problem. How will you reformat if you
cant even boot to a floppy? I would start pulling cards and reseating ram etc.
Did you install the usb cable? Maybe thats the culprit. It could have caused a
problem or unseated something when you plugged it in. No boot to floppy=no
windows problem. Does the post screen identify all your hardware correctly?
Maybe your mouse or keyboard cable is halfway unplugged or something like that.
Good luck.

George

"Tumbleweed" <> wrote in message news:<3fec0e07$0$392$>. ..
> "bill" <> wrote in message
> news: om...
> > Downloaded the drivers from the CD and on reboot after driver install
> > I hang up and cannot do anything. Even in safe mode it locks up and
> > trying to boot from the CD i get Matrix like movement accross my
> > screen. Is there any hope?? I was going to uninstall drivers but I
> > cant do anything.
>
> Use the boot floppy or CD that you made when you installed your AV software.


I did try the floppy and the cd. The CD first and it did the Matrix
deal on the screen. Then tried the floppy and it won't do anything.
Some additional info, My son and my bro-in-law (who is a programmer
and knows his stuff) were installing it when a message came up that
the driver install failed and to uninstall and reboot...but during
that reboot is when everything failed. My Bro in law did offer to
install 2000 if we cant get it back up. He had to leave, it was late,
and we had tried all the "easy" stuff. Just thought that someone
might have experienced something similar and would have some advice.
Thanks for the help so far, everyone.

ojunk (CARBUFF) wrote in message news:<>...
> > I tried booting
> >with the floppy and it doesnt do anything there, either, just a blank
> >screen...
>
> Ok, if you cannot even boot to a floppy then this has nothing to do with your
> windows installation. You have a hardware problem. How will you reformat if you
> cant even boot to a floppy? I would start pulling cards and reseating ram etc.
> Did you install the usb cable? Maybe thats the culprit. It could have caused a
> problem or unseated something when you plugged it in. No boot to floppy=no
> windows problem. Does the post screen identify all your hardware correctly?
> Maybe your mouse or keyboard cable is halfway unplugged or something like that.
> Good luck.
>
> George

Thks George

I took the back off and chked to be sure everything seems sturdy.
Nothing was loose. by the post screen I am guessing you mean the
screen that flashes for about .4 seconds after I leave the bios
screen. I hit pause at just the right time (after a couple tries)
and it did identify my hard drive and cd drives and amount of ram
correctly. We didnt install any hardware. My son was installing
the new driver and got a message install failed. Good question about
reformatting. If I cant get it fixed I am going to let my bro-in-law
install windows 2000 which wouldnt be a bad thing, either I suppose.
If it is hardware it is just one of those incedible coincidences.