On board video died, multiple problems afterwards

[flaris]

Relevant specs:
Athlon II X4 640
ASUS M5A78L-M LX PLUS

Okay, so the on-board video on my parents' computer suddenly stopped working. I purchased a dedicated card and attempted to install the driver but was halted by BSoDs on attempts which ultimately led to the hard drive being corrupted from crashing.

The on-board at this point still does not work and I don't think it will. Now, whenever I attempt to reinstall Windows Vista I get a BSoD during installation. I'm unsure how to troubleshoot at this point. It is not the RAM, MemTest ran smoothly.

Here's a picture of the BSoD:

http://imgur.com/skNk40o
Any help is surely appreciated

[Jintan]

Hello flaris,

A few points:

which ultimately led to the hard drive being corrupted from crashing.

You can use the Vista disk to repair the file system, which gets damaged when the computer shuts down incorrectly.

Okay, so the on-board video on my parents' computer suddenly stopped working. I purchased a dedicated card and attempted to install the driver but was halted by BSoDs

Very unusual that the onboard graphics fail, but you can still get graphics from adding a graphics card. So you got zero graphics until you installed the card?

The BSOD suggests driver conflict. Perhaps the onboard graphics needs to be disabled in the BIOS. When the computer first starts, does it shows which key to press to access the BIOS, or Setup or something like those options?

[Jintan]

Please be as specific as possible in your replies.

[flaris]

Sorry for necro posting, but I just wanted to give an update in case future readers have the same problem as me.

The problem was indeed driver conflict - disabled the onboard GPU in the BIOS and everything works fine. Thanks!

[Murf]

Thanks for letting us know.