NEED major help, HUSSE i know you can help

[Husse]

Without hands on this is a bit hard....
If your win had not worked either I would have guessed the Dreamlinux CD changed the firmware (or BIOS) of you video card so it gets crazy
Could still be that....
Boot into Windows with the nvidia card in use
Change resolution to something half crazy - reboot
Change back to your preferred resolution - reboot and check that it works
Boot a live CD but not the Dreamlinux one
If we are lucky (?) the card has been reset by Windows and possible to use with Linux again

Even when i have my windows hard drive installed and then i shut down and run a live cd of linux it still says the same error. It leaves at a terminal.

If this means only Win disk not the Linux hard disk it is not a Linux error, but as described above something in firmware, provided it used to work flawlessly

[Nomad]

Dreamlinux and the 8800 cards seem to have problems. My 8800 GT's were very messed up after Dreamlinux. Resolution was messed up as well as the fans. I had to flash my BIOS to repair it. Try Husse's suggestion first though.

[akshunj]

I'm not familiar with Dreamlinux, but if it uses the proprietary Nvidia driver, that's probably where things went sideways. The last few drivers have changed some fan settings and such on the latest gen cards. The nvidia linux forum has MANY threads going on this...