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I've done it! F*@*&? YEEEHHAA! Firstly thanks to jrf2027 and to submix8c for all your info. you guys rock! For anyone that replicates my stupidity this is how I did it (again with assistance from these guys!) my computer with blank screen/graphics card disabled is turned on and networked via crossover cat5 to working pc ran psexec on working pc http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897553.aspx entered psexec \\marklap cmd where marklap is name of blank pc on network now have command c:\ prompt for blank pc on working pc copied devcon.exe to c: drive of blank pc and followed these instructions http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-1886-enabl...he-command-line entered devcon find * and devcon find pci/* in command line found my hd3450 in list entered: enable "id of device" devcon reported enabled restarted laptop everything works! Thanks MSFN Forums & also to the developers of devcon & psexec software!

As long as the actual machine name is sony, that is the correct syntax. If you're unsure of the machine name, you could try using the IP address of the machine - I don't know if it will work, though. I also have KIS 2010 on my machines - I have to head out for a while, but when I get back I'll play around with devcon a little more to see what I can find out on accessing another machine. OK huge jump here! I reloaded the black screened laptop and managed to log into windows "blind" and have now managed to connect from this pc through windows wghome as I had the c: drive on the blank screened computer as a share! there must be a way to do this now as vista is installed on that drive! I tried to open a file on the blank screen c: drive but administrator password came up... just read up on doing net use commands in command prompt... any one else help with this? OK now have full access via network in windws xp omn this computer to c drive on blank screen computer... WHAT DO I DO! Re post above sorry guys new to this posting thing... thanks for advice edit - Thanks for advice submix8c but I'm not really sure what you mean or how to do it! Basically I can access the c drive of the blank pc via my network in explorer. I have also downloaded PsExec that opens up programme's from that pc on this pc. With this I now have the c prompt and command line for the blank computer on this screen. So with the above what can I do to access device manager or whatever to enable the graphics card using what I have? Sorry but I may need a bit of a walk thru as I am way above my station/envelope/knowledge level here! Thanks for your patience & understanding.

As long as the actual machine name is sony, that is the correct syntax. If you're unsure of the machine name, you could try using the IP address of the machine - I don't know if it will work, though. I also have KIS 2010 on my machines - I have to head out for a while, but when I get back I'll play around with devcon a little more to see what I can find out on accessing another machine. OK huge jump here! I reloaded the black screened laptop and managed to log into windows "blind" and have now managed to connect from this pc through windows wghome as I had the c: drive on the blank screened computer as a share! there must be a way to do this now as vista is installed on that drive! I tried to open a file on the blank screen c: drive but administrator password came up... just read up on doing net use commands in command prompt... any one else help with this?

As long as the actual machine name is sony, that is the correct syntax. If you're unsure of the machine name, you could try using the IP address of the machine - I don't know if it will work, though. I also have KIS 2010 on my machines - I have to head out for a while, but when I get back I'll play around with devcon a little more to see what I can find out on accessing another machine. OK huge jump here! I reloaded the black screened laptop and managed to log into windows "blind" and have now managed to connect from this pc through windows wghome as I had the c: drive on the blank screened computer as a share! there must be a way to do this now as vista is installed on that drive! However the share seems to only be on c ; and not on any of the folders in c:! .... any ideas

As long as the actual machine name is sony, that is the correct syntax. If you're unsure of the machine name, you could try using the IP address of the machine - I don't know if it will work, though. I also have KIS 2010 on my machines - I have to head out for a while, but when I get back I'll play around with devcon a little more to see what I can find out on accessing another machine. OK no problem thanks loads for all your help so far. really appreciate it. btw I have teamviewer on both machines but obviously can't access teamviewer on the black screen laptop to see the 4 digit code or accept help!

OK getting confused with all the <> and in help file it has [<... do i need to use these brackets? Yes and No. If your machine's name is desktop, you would type m:\\desktop , not m:\\<desktop>. And if you want to put the file at C:\List.txt, you just type C:\List.txt. However, in the find * > portion of the command, you do need to use the > , as this will redirect the output to a text file so you can more easily read it. My apologies - I should have used something else to delineate the variables. Hey don't apologise! your saving my a**! OK I've been trying but not sure if it's working as get console help file or I get devcon failed... is this right? devcon -m:\\sony find * > C:\List.txt OK just rebooted the other machine into safe mode with networking... it is on the screen with all sytem32\driver.sys files and says "please wait..." have pinged it and got 100% so netwoking is ok this time when I do devcon command it writes the list.txt file but blank and says devcon failed but after quite a while, whereas before it did devcon fail streight away when I was logged into windows (on the black screen laptop) any idea's... It's so close I can smell it!

OK getting confused with all the <> and in help file it has [<... do i need to use these brackets? Yes and No. If your machine's name is desktop, you would type m:\\desktop , not m:\\<desktop>. And if you want to put the file at C:\List.txt, you just type C:\List.txt. However, in the find * > portion of the command, you do need to use the > , as this will redirect the output to a text file so you can more easily read it. My apologies - I should have used something else to delineate the variables. Hey don't apologise! your saving my a**! OK I've been trying but not sure if it's working as get console help file or I get devcon failed... is this right? devcon -m:\\sony find * > C:\List.txt

OK getting confused with all the <> and in help file it has [<... do i need to use these brackets? Yes and No. If your machine's name is desktop, you would type m:\\desktop , not m:\\<desktop>. And if you want to put the file at C:\List.txt, you just type C:\List.txt. However, in the find * > portion of the command, you do need to use the > , as this will redirect the output to a text file so you can more easily read it. My apologies - I should have used something else to delineate the variables. Hey don't apologise! your saving my a**!

OK getting confused with all the <> and in help file it has [<... do i need to use these brackets? Another thing quickly which might p*** you off... sorry... I have kaspersky 2010 on the broken laptop (and this one) will that make any difference. I mean i can ping both computers and can devcon on this one, with kaspersky 2010. Windows firewall is off on both pc's... Re safe mode & networking I get the option, it scrolls tyhrough the driver load screen but then stays on that screen (with the driver list showing) and doesn't go any further... is that far enough for safe mode with networking to have loaded for me to access via defcon from other pc?

OK getting confused with all the <> and in help file it has [<... do i need to use these brackets? Another thing quickly which might p*** you off... sorry... I have kaspersky 2010 on the broken laptop (and this one) will that make any difference. I mean i can ping both computers and can devcon on this one, with kaspersky 2010. Windows firewall is off on both pc's...

OK getting confused with all the <> and in help file it has [<... do i need to use these brackets?

Wow I'm praying this may work and you (jrf2027) might get guru of the year award! OK devcon is working as I can devcon the pc I'm working on i.e. devcon find * gives me a list of devices. I can also ping my "black screen" broken computer and get 100% response but what is correct command to get list from broken computer? Tnx

OK trying this but with a twist... I have pinged my computer successfully via crossover cable... devcon says it can work from another pc so willl try it this way...

thks for response... I'm all ears... anyone out there got a solution?

Thanks for response. Yeah f8 gives me that screen but vga mode does the same... goes blank/black after initial vista "VGA" load screen... unfortunately for me last know good configuration doesn't work either... as I logged in from the black screen so windows thinks that is the last good configuration! aaarrgg!

Thnks for quick response SyntaxError Unfortunately HP has this Laptop bios so locked down... one reason I have learnt is that AMD screwed up their whole crossfire thing on this puma platform (was going to be a rival to centrino setup with ability to have crossfire for good gaming) but alas there were major heat issues and the closed the bios. All I can change in the bios is the date and time or boot order! Even after pressing F1, ctrl f1 in the bios still nothing. I have removed the cmos / bios battery to try and reset it but that didn't work either... any more ideas? Tnx

Here's a tricky one for you... Right I considered myself to be quite good on a computer but have now realized I'm not as good as I think I am hence the login name! I have an HP laptop running vista 32 bit home premium fully SP2'd up. I very cleverly moved the HP recovery partition off of the laptop onto my backup drive but didn't burn the discs from Vista so just have all the backup files (now copied onto a 16gig flash drive) It has an AMD Radeon HD3450 graphics card... there is also an onboard HD3200 but both can't talk to each other i.e. crossfire (bios is locked) I was "messing around" with the ATI CCC versions and after rolling back from an old driver I idiotically decided to turn off the HD3450 in Device manager... after that the screen has gone black and no matter how I reboot, try to do a system restore (which fails), safe mode fails etc i can't get to the login screen. I see the boot screen, the windows vista load screen but when it switches to the logon screen it goes black. The long and the short of it is once the vista boot screen disappears (obviously as it tries to switch to the HD3450) the screen goes black. I have left it sitting like this for a while hoping something would happen and then decided to log in by hitting return entering my password and hitting return. Sure enough the hard drive starts purring and the vista welcome noise/tune happens and loads up my personal settings... with me looking at a black screen. I really don't want to have to reinstall the whole OS as (I don't have the discs as I didn't make them! for what in reality is just a 0 that needs to be a 1 in some setting in vista. So my question is can I either: 1) Boot into dos (please tell me where to download the software etc) and turn the graphics card on from there? 2) Or as Vista is loading and I just can't see it can anyone give me the keyboard shortcuts & keystrokes to turn on my graphics card "blind"! 3) Or if I press the windows logo key can you give me the words to enter into the search/run box again "blind" 4) I don't know.... any other suggestions! Pls help Tnx