Driver issue with XP

[Molson]

Having an issue with my monitor.
It is on all during start up but as soon as windows loads the monitor
goes to stand by and i have a blank screen.

I tried to start it in safe mode(how do you do that anyways....i have
to turn it off during start up for it to get the menu) and it works
fine. this leads me to believe it is the video driver.

I read the trouble shooting on how to instale a new moniter driver but
in safe mode there is no "drivers" tab.

Any help would be great.

PS

i am having an issue with safe mode. it enter safe mode and some text
scrolls.
more than a page of
multi(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\drivers\mup.sys
is the last line and it freezes there...not sure what that is all about
but i can no longer enter safe mode.....

i'm really up a creek..plz help

 

[Michael T]

Perhaps you need to re-flash your BIOS and/or load the default optimized
bios settings.

Check out the following thread re mup.sys problems.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1074437658

 

[Chelsea]

Hi Molson,
Is what you are saying XP goes to a blank screen on starting Windows, and
then the monitor goes into standby? Whereas you can start in Safe Mode and
the monitor works? What sort of delay is there between windows starting and
it going into standby?
Try this:
Start in Safe mode
to do this repeatedly press the F8 key as thr PC starts

In Safe Mode
Switch your power management settings in Control Panel to always on or as
Microsoft calls never
Ths applies to the monitor and hard disk

You may also want to look at the power management settings in the BIOS.



Try rebooting the PC and see if the problem has cleared

 

[Michael T]

I tried to start it in safe mode (how do you do that anyways...)

Press the F8 key a few time while booting.

Alternatively you can use MSCONFIG to set your PC to 'always' boot on Safe
Mode. Obviously you will need to undo this change after you're done with
Safe Mode.

Go to Start > Run and type
msconfig
click OK

Select the tab named BOOT.INI and check the option /SAFEBOOT.

Click APPLY, then click CLOSE at which time you should be prompted to
restart XP.

 

[Al Romanosky]

Safe mode starts Windows with minimum requirements and uses standard VGA
mode - 99.9% of the time if windows starts OK in safe mode and not normally
a driver is at fault - it appears you have identified the problem e.g. video
driver.