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  • 03-09-2004 9:31pm
    #1
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭


    ok a friend of mine disabled his graphics card in windows xp (i know stupid thing to do)
    now it wont boot , or at least displays noting when it goes past the win xp loading screen
    also it wont boot into safe mode
    im not sure how to go about fixing this does anyone have any ideas?


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  • #2
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    Control panel>Performance and maintanence>system>hardware>device manager>display adapters and you should be able to reenable them there.


  • #3
    Eldarin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Eldarin


    Ciaran500 wrote:
    Control panel>Performance and maintanence>system>hardware>device manager>display adapters and you should be able to reenable them there.

    The Pc wont boot up to windows so that won't work.

    Ok here we go:

    If his pc's graphics card is a seperatly installed card (AGP or PCI) that would lead me to believe that he has an on-board graphics adapter on the motherboard usually below the MOUSE/KEYBOARD PS2 slots and USB Slot's on the back. If he plugs his monitor cable into that and boots up he'll get back into windows. Then he can do what Ciaran500 suggested. Just remember to plug the monitor cable back into the Installed Graphics card for best performance

    However if not the easiest way to do it without rebooting the whole system is to remove the card and put in another one just so you can get windows to disregard the old card once windows has booted at least once you can again remove that card and put in your old one.

    And that my freind as Homer once said is "The end of that Chapter"

    Cheers
    Eldarin

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