Display blank - disabled vga driver

[Guest]

I was installing a new video card and I ended up disabling my display.

I have onboard graphics (intel extreme) and I was trying to switch to ATI
radeon PCI card.
As per steps given in install i did following
1. Remove intel driver and disable display
a. removed driver from add/remove software
b. after that i disabled the driver from graphics properties.
2. By the time i DISABLED the driver It was already non plug and play VGA
driver.
3. Connected the card and booted
4. initial window xp screen came and after that it went blank. no display
but hard keyboard was responding and pressing key was showing hard disk
activity
5. frustrated I did power off. removed new card and connected monitor to
onboard graphics connector.
6. power on brings initial screen with windows xp logo but after a while
screen goes and nothing happens. the key board is still responding and
monitor is getting signal but no display.
7. i tried several time power off and boot. also tried boot in safe mode and
boot with vga enabled, and last known option. always the same.

Any help to restore.
Mine is a emachine T1840 and I only have a restore CD that will wipe clean
my disk so not a good option.

Thanks
PB Singh

 

[Guest]

there was no need to remove onboard driver and display.

do you have another computer that you can put bad hard drive in?
if so, put in as slave. copy video drivers from restore cd into bad drive's
windows\system32 and windows\system32\drivers folders.

put back in original computer. make sure it's back as master.

 

[Guest]

Well. The system is booting fine. only I can not see anything on screen. I do
not have another computer but i have a laptop. both computer are on internal
network but i have not ben able to access the computer so far from laptop. Is
there some fix key sequence that can be used without looking at screen to
make it work?

TIA
PB Singh

 

[Guest]

yeah there was a post the other day for similar problem.
although they only disabled display and did not mention uninstalling driver.

Sorry I don't have author(s) names to credit them.

Do you have XP Home or Pro?
I guess it differs on key strokes. I will point out difference.

1)Start Windows; give it time to finish loading everything.
2)Physically, push your mouse up & left as far as you can. As you can't
see the pointer, this should avoid any Icons. Right click.
3)Press UP ARROW key once FIRMLY. Press ENTER key.
The Display Properties opened, though invisible.
4)Press each key following FIRMLY, in this order:
TAB,TAB,TAB,TAB (4 times, that is)
RIGHT ARROW (4 times, Firmly)
TAB (4 times, Firmly) HERE!!! some say "7" tabs
Press ENTER. You are in Advanced settings.
5) TAB ( 5 times)
RIGHT ARROW (2 times)
TAB (once)
ENTER. You are on the Monitor Properties page.
6) NORMAL key tap on TAB.
UP ARROW, firmly.
Almost done.
7)TAB firmly.
ENTER.
8)Restart.

Not guaranteed to work since you remove drivers!!!!

 

[Guest]

tried with the steps. May be i missed some exact spot or system is expecting
a different response and no luck.

Also tried with downloaded boot disk from microsoft support. The system
boots ok but goes to blank screen after xp logo.

Any other suggestions.

Thanks
PB Singh

 

[Guest]

Not sure why you're messing w/bootdisk?
you're missing a video driver from motherboard.

did you try the 4 tab vs 7 tab option?

you could contact eMachine tech support?
http://www.emachines.com/support/tech_support.html

what happens when you boot from Recovery CD?
Do you have visual effects? read menu?

Can you get into BIOS (F10) on boot up? make sure Onboard Video is enabled!!!
make sure PCI video card is removed!!

I think you're stuck with restoring system with recovery cd!

 

[Guest]

tried my luck with emachine support also. there suggestion is to restore to
original status as i bought. thinking of trying recovery console as a last
resort

 

[Guest]

If you only have a recovery cd, i don't think recovery console is available
to you!!

Video driver is available as download from eMachine. not sure how you would
install it!!
http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html?cat=desktop&subcat=T-Series&model=T1840

 

[Keith Willcocks]

I was installing a new video card and I ended up disabling my display.

I have onboard graphics (intel extreme) and I was trying to switch to ATI
radeon PCI card.
As per steps given in install i did following
1. Remove intel driver and disable display
a. removed driver from add/remove software
b. after that i disabled the driver from graphics properties.
2. By the time i DISABLED the driver It was already non plug and play VGA
driver.
3. Connected the card and booted
4. initial window xp screen came and after that it went blank. no display
but hard keyboard was responding and pressing key was showing hard disk
activity
5. frustrated I did power off. removed new card and connected monitor to
onboard graphics connector.
6. power on brings initial screen with windows xp logo but after a while
screen goes and nothing happens. the key board is still responding and
monitor is getting signal but no display.
7. i tried several time power off and boot. also tried boot in safe mode
and
boot with vga enabled, and last known option. always the same.

Any help to restore.
Mine is a emachine T1840 and I only have a restore CD that will wipe clean
my disk so not a good option.

I had a similar problem. I cured it by hitting F8 as Windows XP loaded and
then, in the boot menu, selected "Enable VGA". This fixed it and I have
not had to repeat the procedure. Hope it helps (let me know if it does).

 

[Guest]

Borrowed windows xp CD.
installed new version on same disk without formatting.
booted the system and backed up all contents to another disk
restored original windows from emachines cd.

Well my system is back and none of my files were lost altough.

- PB Singh