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Blank screen after win98 splash screen

  • 01-06-2006 10:41pm
    #1
    Patrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭


    System spec
    • 800MHz CPU
    • Onboard Intel Gfx
    • Dell system, can't remember model number

    User experienced problem in title and has been using the system for a few years.

    The system will boot into safe mode

    I decided to format and reinstall win98se. After the installation I got back into windows. Windows didnt have the correct graphics driver by default so I installed the one off the dell cd and rebooted however the original problem then occured.

    How come the pc suddenly doesnt like this driver? Could the video card be faulty?


Comments

  • #2
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    If you can still go into safe mode, remove the drivers for the graphics card and install the default vga drivers. If this allows you to boot back into windows normally then you may have a gfx card or driver problem. Its also possible that you are putting the refresh rate at something which the monitor can't handle, hench the black screen.


  • #3
    Patrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Patrick


    Well they wouldnt have gone changing the refresh rate so I wonder how the problem originally occured?


  • #4
    delly
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    Patrick wrote:
    Well they wouldnt have gone changing the refresh rate so I wonder how the problem originally occured?
    Who knows, but i'd try that sequence to eliminate each part.


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    are you sure you installed the right driver - dell seemed to have gone out of their way to confuse people on some of them

    IIRC displayfallback=1 in system.ini will get you in in normal mode


  • #6
    Patrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Patrick


    Thanks for all the replies. I found a place in the bios where you choose your video controller to be PCI to onboard and it's working now


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