Disabled video card

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I did something *very* dumb and need help fixing it. I disabled my video
card by going to Properties/Settings/Advanced/Adapter/Properties Device
usage: (do not use this device (disable)). I then rebooted and now there's
no display. I know it's booting up OK because I see the Windows XP display
as it's booting, but then the screen goes blank when the login screen
appears. I (blindly) type the password and I hear it booting up.

So....my question is, does anyone know how to (blindly) re-enable a video
card? I tried having an XP machine side-by-side and hit combinations of TAB
and ENTER to try to re-enable it without luck. I need some quick shortcut
or simple way of re-enabling it.

Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.
 
Hi ksutton,

Odd that your system doesn't resort to using the Standard VGA adapter. If
your system gives you a visible display when you boot into either Safe Mode
or Safe Mode with Command Prompt, try doing a System Restore to a point that
precedes your having disabled the video card. The navigation to System
Restore is the same for Safe Mode as it is when your computer starts
normally. To start the System Restore tool from a Command Prompt, see this
MSKB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=304449



Regards,
 
Patti,

Thanks for the advice. I tried to follow your advice and unfortunately,
while booting in the Safe Mode with command prompt, it gets to the point
where it's loading the agp440.sys driver and it crashes with the message:

"STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error}
The Session Manager Initialization system process terminated unexpectedly
with a status of 0x0000034
The system has been shut down.

That's not good, I'm sure.

I don't suppose you have any other ideas????

Thanks!

Keith
 
OK. I finally got the computer booted into the Windows Recovery Console and
disabled the agp440 driver. When I then tried to boot in the Safe Mode with
Prompt, it hangs at
"btkrnl.sys" and gives the same error message as originally.

Am I going to have to reload XP?

Thanks!
Keith
 
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