Disabled monitor on XP and wont boot in safe mood!

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rikstaparr

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Hi I have a Dell desktop and wasn't able to adjust the monitors resolution so stupidly deactivated the monitor and am now only able to see windows boot up screen and then it goes blank (Obviously as I have disabled it!!) I have tried starting it in safe mode and it just hangs on the safe mode boot up.....Any ideas?!?!?!

Cheers!!!
:rolleyes:
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Aspire M1201
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    AMD Athlon x2 Dual Core
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    Unknown
    Memory
    1GB DDR RAM
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon 2100
    Sound Card
    Unknown
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Barracuda 7200
    PSU
    ATX 250PA
How long did you let it boot up for? Mine sits pretty long when safe mode boot.

You can try removing the card, and putting it back in. This sometimes works.

g/l
 

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  • CPU
    Dual L5639 // i7 950 @ 4.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    Evga SR-2 // Gigabyte x58a-ud3r
    Memory
    12Gig Corsair XMS3 // 6Gig OCZ Gold
    Graphics card(s)
    gtx 560 ti // gtx 260-216
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual 22" // Headless
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    OCZ aGILITY 3, 120Gig + Seagate 500Gig x 2
    PSU
    Silverstone da700 // Corsair 520hx
    Case
    Rosewill BlackHawk Ultra // Antec 900v1
    Cooling
    Twin CM Hyper 212+ // Noctua NH-u12
    Other Info
    Acer 8930 laptop with x9100...
Ok will give that a go, it's hanging at mup.sys...when I boot in normal mode it's all ok, (i.e see the windows xp screen with the blue bar loading) but and then goes blank at the welcome screen. When you say remove card, which card are you referring to please?

Cheers for the help.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Aspire M1201
    CPU
    AMD Athlon x2 Dual Core
    Motherboard
    Unknown
    Memory
    1GB DDR RAM
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon 2100
    Sound Card
    Unknown
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Barracuda 7200
    PSU
    ATX 250PA
I mean open the case and pull out the video card, then pop it back in.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Dual L5639 // i7 950 @ 4.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    Evga SR-2 // Gigabyte x58a-ud3r
    Memory
    12Gig Corsair XMS3 // 6Gig OCZ Gold
    Graphics card(s)
    gtx 560 ti // gtx 260-216
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual 22" // Headless
    Hard Drives
    OCZ aGILITY 3, 120Gig + Seagate 500Gig x 2
    PSU
    Silverstone da700 // Corsair 520hx
    Case
    Rosewill BlackHawk Ultra // Antec 900v1
    Cooling
    Twin CM Hyper 212+ // Noctua NH-u12
    Other Info
    Acer 8930 laptop with x9100...
Okey dokey.........minor prob here though, I haven't a clue where the video card is!!!!.....:rolleyes:............it's a DELL Optiplex GX270............
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Aspire M1201
    CPU
    AMD Athlon x2 Dual Core
    Motherboard
    Unknown
    Memory
    1GB DDR RAM
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon 2100
    Sound Card
    Unknown
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Barracuda 7200
    PSU
    ATX 250PA
Dang you have a video card built into the board.... IF you can't boot into windows, safe or normal mode, I'm not too sure what to do... Can you get to the menu that gives you "Last good configuration"?

Sorry, I'm not big in the OS part of computers, someone might have a better idea.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Dual L5639 // i7 950 @ 4.0Ghz
    Motherboard
    Evga SR-2 // Gigabyte x58a-ud3r
    Memory
    12Gig Corsair XMS3 // 6Gig OCZ Gold
    Graphics card(s)
    gtx 560 ti // gtx 260-216
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual 22" // Headless
    Hard Drives
    OCZ aGILITY 3, 120Gig + Seagate 500Gig x 2
    PSU
    Silverstone da700 // Corsair 520hx
    Case
    Rosewill BlackHawk Ultra // Antec 900v1
    Cooling
    Twin CM Hyper 212+ // Noctua NH-u12
    Other Info
    Acer 8930 laptop with x9100...
Hi,

Borrow a video card or different monitor & install it, no drivers needed. Go from there, to re-activate the original graphics in hidden devices? & then remove the borrowed card/ monitor & bob is your etc.

How does that sound?
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP-Pavilion m9280.uk-a
    CPU
    2.30 gigahertz AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-Core
    Motherboard
    ASUSTek Computer INC. NARRA3 3.02
    Memory
    3582 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory (4 Gig)
    Graphics card(s)
    ASUS NVIDIA Geforce GTS450
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition 7.1 Audio (HP drivers)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2408 24.0" (Dual monitor)
    Screen Resolution
    1920 * 1200, 1920 * 1200
    Hard Drives
    3*500 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity Plus 2x USB (160Gig each) external HDD BluRay & DVD Weiters HL-DT-ST BD-RE GGW-H20L SCSI CdRom (Bluray RW) Device AlViDrv BDDVDROM SCSI CdRom (Blueray) Device TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653N SCSI CdRom
    Internet Speed
    40 Meg
Cheers dude, will give that a try when I get home next weekend....Cheers.:)
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Acer Aspire M1201
    CPU
    AMD Athlon x2 Dual Core
    Motherboard
    Unknown
    Memory
    1GB DDR RAM
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon 2100
    Sound Card
    Unknown
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Barracuda 7200
    PSU
    ATX 250PA
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