Alright, I think I may have screwed myself here, hopefully someone can offer a bit of help! ;) My problem is this: In order to play a certain PC game I was instructed to download the latest AGP drivers for my motherboard. I did that and installed them. After the mandatory reboot my ATI control panel would not open upon startup and it appeared as though my original ATI drivers had been overwritten. I then attempted to re-install my ATI drivers but I got a fatal error during the setup wizard that stated: "Try installing a VGA display driver before running setup." (I can't remember the exact wording but that's close enough...) So I proceeded to un-install the motherboard AGP drivers I had just downloaded with the un-install option in their setup wizard. The ATI drivers still would not install, giving the same error message. I then proceeded to disable the generic VGA driver that XP showed was installed, assuming that when I restarted, XP would give me the option of choosing a new video driver to install. Not so. Instead, after my normal bootup sequence and after entering my Administrator password I was blessed with a blank, black screen. What's going on here? Do I need to re-install Windows or would a possible fix be to copy some individual files off of my XP cd to my C:\Windows\System directory in DOS? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Try to do a system restore to a time before you upgrade your video drivers in safe mode. Hold F8 when the system start and choose the safe mode, if you can't do that in safe mode you are going to do all that that you do but in safe mode. Hope this help you

Use the driver rollback feature in windows XP. It allows you to go back to the previosly installed driver. Hope that helps Gunther

Thanks for the replies. Using F8 on startup I was able to get back to the desktop. I reinstalled my motherboard's latest 4 in 1 drivers, however, the ATI drivers still refuse to install saying: "Try to setup your display adapter with a standard VGA driver before running setup."