Lost video driver, I think

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More likely than not, when you loaded the modem drivers they either
activated an IRQ for the modem that your display adapter was already using
or they overwrote a file the display adapter drivers needed. Since the
reinstall fixed things that would seem to make it a closed case no matter
which of the above actually caused the problem. :-)

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"rjshenal" <rjshenal@highstream.net> wrote in message
news:ex8BsbSTFHA.1044@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hello All:
> OK here goes: Went on the net to download an updated driver for my modem,
> did so and installed it and it worked.
> But, the next time I rebooted my computer, the screen came up with the
> windows generic video picture, like the one you get when you load windows
> safe mode.
> I had to run my motherboard disk to load the video driver back on and had
> to reinstall windows and finally got it working back to normal. Has this
> ever happened to anyone out there? If so, why did this happen?
>
> Am really confused???
>
> Thnaks in advance
>
> rjshenal