Video failure - can't load vga

[drb]

Looks like my video card failed on my Toshiba laptop running winxp-pro so I
connected another monitor. Was able to get a screen when I had windows load
basic vga but in trying to refine my video screen I disabled the vga driver.
Now I can't even load in safe mode (hangs up at the line for loading
agp440.sys) to correct my mistake. Is there some way to correct my mistake
by getting it to load the basic vga driver?

 

[smlunatick]

Looks like my video card failed on my Toshiba laptop running winxp-pro so I
connected another monitor. Was able to get a screen when I had windows load
basic vga but in trying to refine my video screen I disabled the vga driver.
Now I can't even load in safe mode (hangs up at the line for loading
agp440.sys) to correct my mistake. Is there some way to correct my mistake
by getting it to load the basic vga driver?

Laptops normally have just one video card so if you disabled it, you
are out of luck. If you can not access with "last good config..."
then one way is to do a "repair" reinstall with an origial XP install
CD, not those Recovery / Restore CDs or partitions.

 

[drb]

I tried that several times and my son has my WinXP disc out of town so I am
trying to do with the original XP disc right now.

Is there a way to be able to select a restore from "last know successful"
from a list of restore times?

Or can I load Bart and edit registry or a file to get me to be able to load
the vga?

Looks like my video card failed on my Toshiba laptop running winxp-pro so
I
connected another monitor. Was able to get a screen when I had windows
load
basic vga but in trying to refine my video screen I disabled the vga
driver.
Now I can't even load in safe mode (hangs up at the line for loading
agp440.sys) to correct my mistake. Is there some way to correct my mistake
by getting it to load the basic vga driver?

Laptops normally have just one video card so if you disabled it, you
are out of luck. If you can not access with "last good config..."
then one way is to do a "repair" reinstall with an origial XP install
CD, not those Recovery / Restore CDs or partitions.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

How to Recover from a Corrupted Registry -config-system:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q307545

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[DrB]

The problem is that I disable the vga driver trying to get a better picture
after my laptop video failed. I don't want to do much to the registry so is
there just one area that I can change the vga video from "disabled" to
enable?