help!!!!

[cragster]

please help!!!
please help!! ive screwed up the local meathead's comp! it needed a vga driver so i looked for what was installed got message saying vga compatable but not working? somewhere down the road i saw banshee so click on divce manager did the middle option(right hand button) found all drivers clicked on banshee, got a message saying this may result in improper function and or may stop your comp working. and guess what i pressed it then it turned itself off tried to reboot got upto windows screen(win2000 logo)then gos blank with a quick blue screen and try' to reset it self again? please please help.... cheers soon to be a dead man

[KHT]

Try booting meatheads machine to safe mode. If it boots, try changing the driver. If that fails, try F8 and last known good configuration.

In the future, if you get a message saying this option may screw up meatheads machine and make it not work, try not doing that..

[cragster]

i tried f8 did not work anymore sugestions? apart from never touch his comp agian

[andyms18a]

do you have a win2k cd or can you get meatheads cd ? if so set the bios to boot from cd and boot the computer with the 2k cd and do a repair install of 2k all his data and programs will be ok you may have to reinstal any service paks affter but at least his computer will work then get the corect driver for the vid card and any other hard ware that win2k has not found

[cragster]

sorry anit got that etheir! ive got xp dics? there's nothing on the comp that needs to be saved

[Cricket]

If that's the case, go into BIOS and change the first boot device to the CD-ROM drive, put the WinXP CD into the drive, Save and Exit the BIOS. The system will reboot to the WinXP CD and the WinXP installer will take over. Just follow the on-screen instructions.

But if there are any hardware problems (like a defective video card) this isn't going to solve the problem.

Cricket

[andyms18a]

if you do as cricket says you will have to give the copy of windows xp to the meathead as one copy =1 computer befor you do try opening the case and remove the vid card and put the one from your computer in then turn on the computer and as the bios finishes loading keep pressing the f8 key till you get the boot menue then chose safe moad and see if the computer will boot if it dose remove the vid card from device manager and any software you instaled shut the computer down exchange the vid cards again and reboot

[andyms18a]

if none of the above works try your locall computer shop as thay may have a copy of 2k you can borow or they can install for you may be cheaper than giving your copy of xp away

[cragster]

i have 2 copys of xp so it will work if i put my xp cd in? no more probs? an just leave xp on

[raftero]

if you have a legal xp cd then it will work but like andyms said you will lose that xp because it will have to be activated and cannot be used on another comp.but i guess you knew that.

[Undead_Rider]

If you have an illeagle xp cd and you already have it on 1 computer as long as on the second computer you dont register it and they say access denied you have 30 days free of xp then it erases it self and you have to re-install it