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I have accidentally disabled the display adaptor in the display settings/advanced/adaptor/properties menu.
The default VGA adaptor was in use and now upon restarting there now is no image on the monitor just a black screen. I have tried restarting many times but after the initial bootup sequence where there is a display to be seen, once it gets to windows mode all is black. Please what do I do to enable the video when I cannot see what I am doing in windows.
Open case and pull the video card out, start computer, shutdown computer, put video card back in and start computer again. It should recognize and install it then.
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Don't know if booting in safe mode would work - it's worth a try.
If the above post doesn't work, then u may have to temp fit another graphics card where u can then enable ur original card.
Hope this helps
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I cannot pull the video card out as it is an on-board one.
I can't seem to get into safe-mode either.
Putting a new video card in the expansion slot sounds like it could work, need to get one first though.
I don't get a boot in VGA mode option.
The computer origionaly had a S3"something" device driver installed I disabled that and it chose a "default" VGA driver.I stupidly disabled that thinking it would go back to the S3 specific driver but instead it went to "nothing" as it's driver hence no display output, only a black screen.I bet the computer thinks it's working just fine the only problem being my human eyes cannot see a thing on screen.
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I would double check my bios settings just for the fun of it and see what the primary vga is listed as in bios.
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Thanks for your replies.
I will try to check BIOS tomorrow as it is 3am in the morning now and the computer in question is my sisters' and at her house.
Big brother put his foot in it this time by thinking he could "fix everything".
I will check the message thread tomorrow evening and would appreciate any further assistance to get me out of this situatuation without having to buy my sister a new computer.
It still puzzles me that Windows XP PRO would let you totally disable the display without warning you first, something for Microsoft to look into maybe?
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i did that once. you know how you get that screen of options when you want to go to safe mode? I selected "boot from last known good configuration", and my display returned.
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I have tried everything.
I tried "boot from last good config" but it still went to a black screen.
In fact I tried safe mode and everything on the menu but the computer always freezes after a few seconds into booting.
I even tried booting from the win xp pro cd and getting to the recovery console, don't know what to do there though.
I tried re-installing windows and it gets to loading it all then at the setup screen freezes again.
It seems my problem has developed further than initially thought.
Now it doesn't boot to a black screen anymore but to the blue windows setup screen,not the BIOS one but a more graphic screen.It always freezes now.Maybe all my re-starts and fiddling around has corrupted and damaged some files??
I can get into the recovery console, it is a DOS screen not a standard one though a bit different from what I am used to.Could I ENABLE the VGA driver from there?What do I have to type?Any gurus out there who know it all?
Last resort is to format the hard drive and start again, but my sister would lose all her assignments and homework.
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