Video drivers install. Black screen

[garrapeta]

Hi all.

I'm having a trouble with my video card instalation in winXP.
I've got a nVidia GForce 4 mmx
My card worked fine, but I tried to uninstall the nvidia drivers and
reboot with super VGA drivers becase I wanted to run a program not
compatible with this card.
The problem is that while doing this, I disabled the video card device.

Now, when I boot the system, I can see the winXP logo that is shown in
the booting. After that, when I acces the desktop, the screen is black.
The rest of the system is ok, and the SO works fine, but the screen is
black and I cannot do anything.

I've tried booting up with F8 and "secure mode", but I got the black
screen again.

Is there any way to set up a video card configuration or reinstalling
the video drivers outside the desktop enviroment? I have acces to the
partition where the WinXP is installed through a Win98 installation.

I tried to acces the system in secure mode, with a WinXP boot disk,
with WinXP install cdrom, but always I got to the desktop view, the
screen is black.

Thank you very much.

 

[Rich Barry]

Try borrowing a friends Video Card and connecting it. Let XP bootup with
it and see what happens. If it works Ok Shutdown and then
reconnect your Card.

 

[Matt Gibson]

Instead of booting into "safe" mode, try booting into VGA mode (its in the
same menu)

Matt Gibson - GSEC

 

[Guest]

I have a similar problem, but instead, I'm on a labtop and I wasn' trying to
install a video card. I tried to configure my display (or video card) to
play a DVD. After restarting, my screen turns black but I'm able to see the
startup logo. I've tried booting with VGA mode, but I still get the black
screen. Any suggestions?

Thanks!