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11-30-2003, 12:52 PM
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Help I Turned off monitor adapter
I pulled a real boner, we were having problems with our other computer. so I reinstalled XP over XP, my problems got worse,
I couldn't get my ATI card to work it kept calling for a standard VGA driver. Couldn't find one, My device manager did not shoe a display adapter. Can't remember where I went but it was showing I had a Non PNP monitor, down at the of the screen there was a disable - enable switch so I disable it. Now the monitor will not kick in after the boot starts up. Could one of you nice guy please give me some advice Thanks in advance |
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11-30-2003, 01:01 PM
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Boot to safe mode and re-enable it.
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11-30-2003, 01:20 PM
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Hi HAL9000
Tried that, still no monitior, Used F8 tried all the items in there but the monitor will not light up thanks thomsign |
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11-30-2003, 01:59 PM
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Try a repair installation.
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11-30-2003, 05:23 PM
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Hi HAL9000
Unfortunately, I can't see anything on the monitor just a blank screen. When the bios kicks in you can read the bios data, then the XP screen starts, you see the running dot pattern then as the Windows program loads the screen goes black. I'm networked with that computer I can see the shared files on the XP Computer. The machine I'm writing on has ME in it. If I installed the XP computer HD in this one do you think I could read it's drive as a slave, and get into it that way? |
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11-30-2003, 05:43 PM
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only if you used the fat32 file system on the xp computer but you wont be abble to turn on the video card from the me computer as you wont have acces to the xp settings if the video card in the xp computer is a ati one and the one in the me computer is a nvida just swap the cards and xp will detect new hard ware and reenable the dsplay for you or boot from the xp cd and chose a repair install to repair one the first screan select setup and then on the next screan hit f6 to agre the licence when windows scans the drive chose to repair xp
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11-30-2003, 08:04 PM
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Hi folks - no joy - I switched the ati card for an nvida in the XP machine still the screen reacts the same no image. So I put the XP HD in my ME machine and the BIOs saw the HD but ME didn't.
What is the next step I should try? Should I reformat the XP HD and if so can you format a XP HD with DOS Fdisk or Format C:/S Thanks for your help Thomsign |
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11-30-2003, 08:13 PM
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Hi folks - no joy - I switched the ati card for an nvida in the XP machine still the screen reacts the same no image. So I put the XP HD in my ME machine and the BIOs saw the HD but ME didn't.
What is the next step I should try? Should I reformat the XP HD and if so can you format a XP HD with DOS Fdisk or Format C:/S Thanks for your help Thomsign |
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12-01-2003, 01:55 AM
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try a diffrent monitor next as xp may detect that as new hardware
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12-03-2003, 04:24 PM
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To Andyms18a & HAL9000
Thanks guys for your help I could not resolve my problem, so I landed up buying a new HD and we're in the process of rebuilting it. Computer tech in town couldn't help. thanks again |
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