Video drivers install. Black screen

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Try borrowing a friends Video Card and connecting it. Let XP bootup with
it and see what happens. If it works Ok Shutdown and then
reconnect your Card.
"garrapeta" <garrapeta@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121284199.880751.66580@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all.
>
> I'm having a trouble with my video card instalation in winXP.
> I've got a nVidia GForce 4 mmx
> My card worked fine, but I tried to uninstall the nvidia drivers and
> reboot with super VGA drivers becase I wanted to run a program not
> compatible with this card.
> The problem is that while doing this, I disabled the video card device.
>
> Now, when I boot the system, I can see the winXP logo that is shown in
> the booting. After that, when I acces the desktop, the screen is black.
> The rest of the system is ok, and the SO works fine, but the screen is
> black and I cannot do anything.
>
> I've tried booting up with F8 and "secure mode", but I got the black
> screen again.
>
> Is there any way to set up a video card configuration or reinstalling
> the video drivers outside the desktop enviroment? I have acces to the
> partition where the WinXP is installed through a Win98 installation.
>
> I tried to acces the system in secure mode, with a WinXP boot disk,
> with WinXP install cdrom, but always I got to the desktop view, the
> screen is black.
>
> Thank you very much.
>

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I have a similar problem, but instead, I'm on a labtop and I wasn' trying to
install a video card. I tried to configure my display (or video card) to
play a DVD. After restarting, my screen turns black but I'm able to see the
startup logo. I've tried booting with VGA mode, but I still get the black
screen. Any suggestions?

Thanks!


"Matt Gibson" wrote:

> Instead of booting into "safe" mode, try booting into VGA mode (its in the
> same menu)
>
> Matt Gibson - GSEC
>
> "garrapeta" <garrapeta@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1121284199.880751.66580@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I'm having a trouble with my video card instalation in winXP.
> > I've got a nVidia GForce 4 mmx
> > My card worked fine, but I tried to uninstall the nvidia drivers and
> > reboot with super VGA drivers becase I wanted to run a program not
> > compatible with this card.
> > The problem is that while doing this, I disabled the video card device.
> >
> > Now, when I boot the system, I can see the winXP logo that is shown in
> > the booting. After that, when I acces the desktop, the screen is black.
> > The rest of the system is ok, and the SO works fine, but the screen is
> > black and I cannot do anything.
> >
> > I've tried booting up with F8 and "secure mode", but I got the black
> > screen again.
> >
> > Is there any way to set up a video card configuration or reinstalling
> > the video drivers outside the desktop enviroment? I have acces to the
> > partition where the WinXP is installed through a Win98 installation.
> >
> > I tried to acces the system in secure mode, with a WinXP boot disk,
> > with WinXP install cdrom, but always I got to the desktop view, the
> > screen is black.
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
>
>
>