Re Enable VGA Driver

[PigHeaded]

Hello,

I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 Laptop running XP Home. The vga driver has been disabled. After bootup all I get is a black screen. None of the safe modes work. I can get into recovery. How do I re-enable the VGA driver?

Thanks,

Jerry

[Nuno Brito]

Winternals has a very good option to restore system points from PE rescue CD's..

Perhaps the repair option on your windows install CD can also be of some use.

I hope it helps!

[nitroshift]

while booting press F8 and choose "enable vga mode". this will bypass your vga drivers and display your desktop in standard mode.

[allen2]

Here is what you need: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=239780

[PigHeaded]

Hello,

I tried to use enable vga but ALL safe modes failed.

I tried doing a repair install but that gave me a partial fix. Instead of safe mode listing files and freezing, it now has a bar at the bottom go across than it freezes.

I just did the bootlog option using the safemode:minimal and I now have a bootlog. It is very large. What should I be looking for in the file? Where do I start?

Thanks,

Jerry

[Davor]

My rule is when you have a problem, and you know the exact cause, you do everything to solve the cause and NOTHING else.

Here is how I would try to sole it:

-->Go to the recovery console. (Win install cd)

-->Login

-->Type 'listsvc' in command line ... you will see all services and drivers that are installed in your system. I hope you know the driver of your VGA card. It should be disabled. When you find the correct driver:

-->Type enable "drivername" Service_demands_Start (if the manual start doesn't work, try auto, then system, then boot.)

This should work.

Greets

Davor

Edited July 12, 2006 by Davor

[PigHeaded]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply. The problem is that all of the video drivers were removed including the vgasafe driver. So I only find a few items in the list that "might" match. they are nv set to manual, nvsvc set to auto, ati2mtag, atimtag, and atimtai all set to manual. I noticed that viaagp and viaide are both set to disable. I have a total of 17 items that are disabled. I will post the list if it helps.

I have BartPE running on the laptop now. So I looked at the bootlog and can see that vga.sys is not installed. I have no idea how to start it. I have tried to copy vga.sys, vga.drv, and vga.dll from the install disk into system32 and system32\drivers for the vga.sys file. But that did not help.

Thanks,

Jerry