This may be a long story. It started out that the PC was freezing constantly, so the owner googled for a solution and one of them said it may be the video drivers. So, he re-installed the vid drivers for his PCI card GeForce 5200. Then he looked at the display settings and saw that it was not listed there, so un-knowingly, he disabled the vga adaptor that said unknown, figuring it was the onboard video. After that he rebooted and now has no display after the XP logo. I tried all the safemode settings, and ALL the other settings when going into safe mode and still no display. I googled tons of things and couldn't find an answer. I enable the PCI/vga in bios, still no display. I put another test HD in and it loaded fine but the PC would still freeze. So I took out the ram (there were 3 of them) one at a time and nailed it down to faulty ram. No more sticking cursor. So I put the origional HD back in and still no video. Is there something I'm missing? Any good suggestions will be really appreciated. The origional HD is 300GB and it seemed to work well as a slave if I slaved it. So I know all the files can be backed up. But he doesn't want to slave the drive so I'm trying to get his video working again Thanks PS: I also tried a repair install to no avail. It blue screened, I looked up the solution, but that didn't work either after following M$ guides. Some HELP in posting on Computing.net plus free progs and instructions Cheers