I have a Geforce 3 Boot problem

hi , looking for some help for a problem i have , i have a pc wich has an MSI MS-6524 board based on the SIS645 chipset, running on a P4 2.0ghz and 512 Mb of RAm, with a Geforce 3, it ran without problems for about a year then all of the sudden out of the blue one day it stopped booting , it would go all the way to the windows xp loading screen then all of the sudden the screen would go black, it enters safe mode fine and when i uninstall the nvidia drivers and attempt to load normally it loads fine up to when i reinstall the drivers, i formatted and reinstalled countless of times seeing if it would work and nothing , ive loaded bios defaults, downloaded mainboard's latest drivers and still nothing , weirdest thing is , i have an ATi radeon 7500 and it works flawless in the pc, and a friend of mine tested his radeon 9700 and it worked fine too , however when another friend of mine lent me his GF FX 5200 it didnt work either, so i must be guessing its an nvidia problem with my board , however i dunno what may have caused this because it used to work fine.

I bet that you have a bad Vidio Driver File..As this happend to freind of mine, First If you have Never gone into your "Regedit" then I suggest that you either get someone that has to help you, or dont blame me if you delete something that you were not supposed to .But if you take your time you will be fine..Go to "Start" and Run, now type in Regedit, then hit OK, Go to HKEY_LOCAL_USER, go down to the +Software, open it, go down to NVIDIA and Highlight it and Delete, Now go back and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, go to the +Software, Go to NVIDIA, highlight and DELETE, Thats it for the Registry..Now go to Control Panel, "Add and Remove Programs" and Find any NVIDIA Vidio Drivers, and Remove...Then your PC will ReBoot, and now you can Load Fresh New NVIDIA "Forceware" Drivers and you should be just fine.......Post back and let us Know if it worked for you, or if you still have Issues, OK?...........Sean REILLY875

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While powered down I cleared the cmos data, removed the Dane Elec DDR2 module and set the bios to optimized defaults. Computer restarted to WinXP with no problems (it has been off the whole night). I shut down WinXP, wait a few moments and then turn the computer back on. Alas, it won't start and starts hick-upping. I turn power off at the PSU again, so it stops.
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Hi @hifive11 ,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I am glad you have recovery disks for windows 7, smart thinking. I have looked into your issue about your HP Pavilion g6-1d73us Notebook and having issues with the Windows upgrade to 8.1. Here is a link to the drivers page for your product. I do notice there are drivers for Windows 8.The Updates you need for the system are the Chipset. These are located on the driver page link above.
One of the things that can cause an issue is things connected USB. The computer can not load the drivers so it causes an issue. Once the machine is up to date then return the USB devices.
Then I recommended to restore the BIOS to factory defaults.Here is a link to restore the BIOS.
You can do a system restore. System restore will help if something automatically updated and did not go well on the Notebook.
Please note remove any and all USB devices. Disconnect all non-essential devices.
Hope this helps.
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