Uninstalled sp2 now comp wont boot

Davei141 · 07-08-2005 9:20pm #1

Well it does boot, i think, my monitors light goes orange before the desktop. I hear the thing start up but monitor still black. I turn the monitor off and on then i get the no input signal. Help me before i go nuts :eek:

angelofdeath · 07-08-2005 9:26pm

try booting up in safe mode, and reinstall your display drivers

CuLT · 07-08-2005 9:46pm

Aye, sounds very much like a screen resolution problem.

angelofdeaths advice should be all you need to get back on the road.

Davei141 · 07-08-2005 10:03pm

when i press tab, del, f8, nothing happens. ive tried 2 monitors and its the same thing =/.

CuLT · 07-08-2005 11:33pm

If you have another AGP card lying around that'll do the trick too. Open up the machine, stick in the other card and reboot.
Then you can change the rates, remove the card and replace the previous one.

This is a little arduous but it has worked for me every time I've tried it. There's probably a simpler way, but failing simpler, go for this

Davei141 · 08-08-2005 10:47am

I think i got one lying about somewere, fingers crossed...

Davei141 · 08-08-2005 5:56pm

I put in the other card, but instead of the no input signal it stays on the error checking screen, i could still hear it boot. I tried safe mode but it sticks on the loading screen. starting to seriously annoy me.

ntlbell · 08-08-2005 6:23pm

time for the aul windows xp cd to come out then i'd say

try a repair from the cd

if that doesn't help you can manually repair the system hive from the recovery cd all this will take time, might be easier to reinstall

good luck

Wandering Dazed · 08-08-2005 6:26pm

Can you boot off the xp cd and get into the recovery console?

Recovery Console Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654/EN-US/

Once in the recovery console, browse to

C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$\spuninst

and run spuninst.exe, this should uninstall the service pack and hopefully get you booting again.

Sorry thought you'd installed sp2....

ntlbell · 08-08-2005 6:30pm

Wandering Dazed wrote:

Can you boot off the xp cd and get into the recovery console?

Recovery Console Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307654/EN-US/

Once in the recovery console, browse to

C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$\spuninst

and run spuninst.exe, this should uninstall the service pack and hopefully get you booting again.

He said the problem started after uninstalling the sp. couldn't do any harm to try uninstall something that's not installed tho...

Davei141 · 08-08-2005 7:09pm

Hey guys im up and running, when i tried to go into safe mode it took about 10 minutes but it worked. Installing all the display drivers again. Thanks for all the help.

ntlbell · 08-08-2005 7:16pm

Davei141 wrote:

Hey guys im up and running, when i tried to go into safe mode it took about 10 minutes but it worked. Installing all the display drivers again. Thanks for all the help.

just out of curiosity why did you uninstall sp2?

Davei141 · 08-08-2005 9:13pm

Im having problems when im uploading my internet cuts out, it never happened before untill the last few months and when i done a search some people said it was a sp2 problem, so i was just checking. Ive never had any problems with sp2 so if i find out im still getting the problem on sp1 ill just reinstall it. When i got a problem that i cant for the life of me fix thats when i do anything, hence the uninstall

Uninstalled sp2 now comp wont boot

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