I DISABLED MY ADAPTER, HELP!!

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Guest

I WENT TO CONTROL PANEL-DISPLAY-SETTINGS-ADVANCED-ADAPTER-PROPERTIES AND FOR
DEVICE USAGE I DROPPED DOWN TO DO NOT USE THIS DEVICE (DISABLE), WHEN I HIT
OK, MY COMPUTER RESTARTED, I CAN SEE IT GO THROUGH THE REGULAR BOOT UP
SCREENS, THEN THE WINDOWS LOGO, BUT AS SOON AS IT LOGS INTO MY PROFILE I HAVE
NOTHING BUT A BLACK SCREEN....HOW CAN I ENABLE THE DEVICE USAGE FOR MY
ADAPTER WITHOUT ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO LOG INTO MY PROFILE???

I HAVE ALREADY TRIED STARTING UP IN SAFE MODE, BUT IT DOESN'T WORK EITHER,
HELP!!
 
R

Ron Martell

Wendy Loo said:
I WENT TO CONTROL PANEL-DISPLAY-SETTINGS-ADVANCED-ADAPTER-PROPERTIES AND FOR
DEVICE USAGE I DROPPED DOWN TO DO NOT USE THIS DEVICE (DISABLE), WHEN I HIT
OK, MY COMPUTER RESTARTED, I CAN SEE IT GO THROUGH THE REGULAR BOOT UP
SCREENS, THEN THE WINDOWS LOGO, BUT AS SOON AS IT LOGS INTO MY PROFILE I HAVE
NOTHING BUT A BLACK SCREEN....HOW CAN I ENABLE THE DEVICE USAGE FOR MY
ADAPTER WITHOUT ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO LOG INTO MY PROFILE???

I HAVE ALREADY TRIED STARTING UP IN SAFE MODE, BUT IT DOESN'T WORK EITHER,
HELP!!
Click to expand...

Turn on the computer and start tapping the F8 key rapidly just as soon
as the first information of any kind shows on the screen. Keep
tapping until the Windows XP Startup Menu appears and choose Safe Mode
from the menu.

At the user logon screen choose the built-in Administrator account to
log into. When it has finished booting up run System Restore and
choose the most recent restore point that is prior to the time you
made the change.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."
 
G

Guest

I HAVE TRIED THIS AND WHEN I SELECT SAFE MODE, I DON'T EVEN GET TO THE
WINDOWS LOGO, THE SCREEN READS INFORMATION THAT ENDS IN MUP.SYS AND FREEZES,
IT NEVER GOES PAST THIS LINE OF TEXT.
ANY OTHER IDEAS???
 
G

Gordon

Wendy Loo said:
I HAVE TRIED THIS AND WHEN I SELECT SAFE MODE, I DON'T EVEN GET TO THE
WINDOWS LOGO, THE SCREEN READS INFORMATION THAT ENDS IN MUP.SYS AND
FREEZES,
IT NEVER GOES PAST THIS LINE OF TEXT.
ANY OTHER IDEAS???
--
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Yes - turn off your caps lock please! It's considered shouting and actually
makes your posts not easy to read. Can you write down the actual message
that appears on the screen ending in "mup.sys"?
 
D

David Vair

Instead of safe mode try using the last good configuration from the same start up menu from the F8.
Also you could try using the vga mode to start up with from the same menu if last good doesn't work.
 
G

Guest

I already tried the last good configuration and it goes to the windows logo
screen and then after loading for a few minutes goes to the completely black
screen again.
I will try VGA mode and see what happens, thanks.
 
G

Guest

Sorry about the Caps...didn't realize as that is all we use here at work.
When I select safe mode the last line of text that displays is

c://multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\Mup.sys
it freezes on this line of text.

any suggestions??
 
G

Guest

I tried VGA mode and it starts up to the Windows Logo but then when that
screen changes it goes to a completely black screen.
any other suggestions???
 
K

Keith

Wendy said:
I WENT TO CONTROL PANEL-DISPLAY-SETTINGS-ADVANCED-ADAPTER-PROPERTIES
AND FOR DEVICE USAGE I DROPPED DOWN TO DO NOT USE THIS DEVICE
(DISABLE), WHEN I HIT OK, MY COMPUTER RESTARTED, I CAN SEE IT GO
THROUGH THE REGULAR BOOT UP SCREENS, THEN THE WINDOWS LOGO, BUT AS
SOON AS IT LOGS INTO MY PROFILE I HAVE NOTHING BUT A BLACK
SCREEN....HOW CAN I ENABLE THE DEVICE USAGE FOR MY ADAPTER WITHOUT
ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO LOG INTO MY PROFILE???

I HAVE ALREADY TRIED STARTING UP IN SAFE MODE, BUT IT DOESN'T WORK
EITHER, HELP!!
Click to expand...

If you write down and folow these instructions to the letter from a cold
boot , take your time, it worked for me.

RE-ENABLE MONITOR
Boot Windows; give it time to finish loading everything.

1) 'push your mouse UP & RIGHT as far as you can. As you can't
see the pointer, this should avoid any Icons
2) RIGHT CLICK MOUSE
3) UP ARROW
4) ENTER 'The Display Properties opened, though invisible
5) TAB,TAB,TAB,TAB
6) RIGHT ARROW,RIGHT ARROW,RIGHT ARROW,RIGHT ARROW
7) ALT-V 'You are in Advanced settings
8) TAB,TAB,TAB,TAB,TAB
9) RIGHT ARROW,RIGHT ARROW
10) ALT-P 'You are on the Monitor Properties page
11) TAB
12) UP ARROW 're-enabled hopefully
13) TAB
14) ENTER,ENTER,ENTER
'WAIT 5 SECONDS - display properties closed
15) CONTROL-ALT-DEL 'Open Task Manager
16) ALT-U
17) DOWN ARROW,DOWN ARROW
18) ENTER 'Should Shutdown
19) RESTART
 
B

bud

Wendy Loo said:
I WENT TO CONTROL PANEL-DISPLAY-SETTINGS-ADVANCED-ADAPTER-PROPERTIES AND
FOR
DEVICE USAGE I DROPPED DOWN TO DO NOT USE THIS DEVICE (DISABLE), WHEN I
HIT
OK, MY COMPUTER RESTARTED, I CAN SEE IT GO THROUGH THE REGULAR BOOT UP
SCREENS, THEN THE WINDOWS LOGO, BUT AS SOON AS IT LOGS INTO MY PROFILE I
HAVE
NOTHING BUT A BLACK SCREEN....HOW CAN I ENABLE THE DEVICE USAGE FOR MY
ADAPTER WITHOUT ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO LOG INTO MY PROFILE???

I HAVE ALREADY TRIED STARTING UP IN SAFE MODE, BUT IT DOESN'T WORK EITHER,
HELP!!
Click to expand...

If all else fails buy or borrow the cheapest pci video card you can find.
Start the computer up using that and go to your other card and re-enable it.
Shut the computer down, remove the replacement card. This assumes that you
have pci slots in your computer.
 
P

philo

If you write down and folow these instructions to the letter from a cold
boot , take your time, it worked for me.

RE-ENABLE MONITOR
Boot Windows; give it time to finish loading everything.

1) 'push your mouse UP & RIGHT as far as you can. As you can't
see the pointer, this should avoid any Icons
2) RIGHT CLICK MOUSE
3) UP ARROW
4) ENTER 'The Display Properties opened, though invisible
5) TAB,TAB,TAB,TAB
6) RIGHT ARROW,RIGHT ARROW,RIGHT ARROW,RIGHT ARROW
7) ALT-V 'You are in Advanced settings
8) TAB,TAB,TAB,TAB,TAB
9) RIGHT ARROW,RIGHT ARROW
10) ALT-P 'You are on the Monitor Properties page
11) TAB
12) UP ARROW 're-enabled hopefully
13) TAB
14) ENTER,ENTER,ENTER
'WAIT 5 SECONDS - display properties closed
15) CONTROL-ALT-DEL 'Open Task Manager
16) ALT-U
17) DOWN ARROW,DOWN ARROW
18) ENTER 'Should Shutdown
19) RESTART
Click to expand...

Now that's impressive...hope it works.
That's better than watching someone navigating without a mouse.

To the OP:

If that does not work..you can fix your system by performing a repair
install


http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
 
R

Ron Martell

Gordon said:
Yes - turn off your caps lock please! It's considered shouting and actually
makes your posts not easy to read. Can you write down the actual message
that appears on the screen ending in "mup.sys"?
Click to expand...

That is just the normal line-by-line acknowledgement of files loaded
when booting in Safe Mode. mup.sys is commonly the last file loaded.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."
 
R

Ron Martell

Wendy Loo said:
I HAVE TRIED THIS AND WHEN I SELECT SAFE MODE, I DON'T EVEN GET TO THE
WINDOWS LOGO, THE SCREEN READS INFORMATION THAT ENDS IN MUP.SYS AND FREEZES,
IT NEVER GOES PAST THIS LINE OF TEXT.
ANY OTHER IDEAS???
Click to expand...


Ouch!!!

Okay, your next best bet is a Repair Install of your Windows XP. A
Repair Install requires that you have an actual installation CD for
Windows XP rather than the "System Recovery" Disk (or hard drive
partition) that is very often supplied with major brand systems.

When you do a Repair Install all of your installed applications,
configuration settings, and user data files will be preserved. However
Windows Updates will have to be reinstalled.

See http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.html for detailed
instructions.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Syberfix Remote Computer Repair

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."
 

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