a lady i work with accidentally pulled the entire video-card connector (on the board) completely off the motherboard. (she didn't realize you have to unscrew the monitor's connector... forgive her, she's a sweet 70 year old lady)... anyways... it's beyond repair. i put a PCI video card in and it works fine until it boots. safe mode works fine all around. however, when i try to boot normally, it just boots, goes to the win xp splash-screen, then the screen just goes black, solid black. any ideas how to get this thing working normally without replacing the entire motherboard?

Have you tried uninstalling the old video while in safe mode from device mgr?

I had a simliar problem last night when I upgraded to the new nvidia drivers. I'd try looking into driver issues first... home page was hijacked byhttp://magicsearch.try this, if you have any backupregistry data files,merge them in to current , or if you have several , i did. i merged about 5 or six. rebboot. it has been

the uninstall of the old one in safe mode did the trick - thanks! (sorry for the delay, apparently my post i made yesterday didn't show up)