display suddenly gone wrong

On 27 Sep 2005 11:19:08 -0700,
wrote:

I've uninstalled all display drivers and now I can't boot, not even in
safe mode or VGA mode. An error flashes up momentarily and I think it
says "video driver failed to load".

If it has a "plugin" graphics card, tell us if it is PCI or AGP slot & any
name or numbers you can find on it.

It is AGP I think, and has a barcode sticker on it which says:

GEFORCE 4 MX440 64-bit 64MB DDR TV-OUT:77AT 103009976


It would seem you had (and even further now) a windows
problem rather than solely a video card problem... as plenty
of us use the same (framework of) Detonator drivers which
would not vary with the GF4MX compared to any other Geforce
card.

I suggest a repair install of Windows, if as you wrote there
is no way to boot windows anymore. Another alternative
would be to install a different video card (either in AGP or
concurrently a PCI card and set bios to make PCI the primary
display device), then booting windows with the alternate
video card. However, since it appears to be a windows
problem (it should not have stopped booting merely by
uninstalling the driver) there may be no way another card
would get you booted either... it's worth a try if you had
one but repair or reinstall overtop itself is probably
useful to get windows back to where it should be.

Can you tell us what operating system you're using? Sounds terribly like 95
to me?



"kony" wrote in message
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On 27 Sep 2005 11:19:08 -0700,
wrote:

I've uninstalled all display drivers and now I can't boot, not even in
safe mode or VGA mode. An error flashes up momentarily and I think it
says "video driver failed to load".

If it has a "plugin" graphics card, tell us if it is PCI or AGP slot &
any
name or numbers you can find on it.

It is AGP I think, and has a barcode sticker on it which says:

GEFORCE 4 MX440 64-bit 64MB DDR TV-OUT:77AT 103009976


It would seem you had (and even further now) a windows
problem rather than solely a video card problem... as plenty
of us use the same (framework of) Detonator drivers which
would not vary with the GF4MX compared to any other Geforce
card.

I suggest a repair install of Windows, if as you wrote there
is no way to boot windows anymore. Another alternative
would be to install a different video card (either in AGP or
concurrently a PCI card and set bios to make PCI the primary
display device), then booting windows with the alternate
video card. However, since it appears to be a windows
problem (it should not have stopped booting merely by
uninstalling the driver) there may be no way another card
would get you booted either... it's worth a try if you had
one but repair or reinstall overtop itself is probably
useful to get windows back to where it should be.

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:34:00 +0930, "BruceM"
wrote:

Can you tell us what operating system you're using? Sounds terribly like 95
to me?


Actually the odds of it are incredibly low, only WinNT/2k/XP
have such horrible problems with mere hardware changes while
9x could plug and play just about anything.

Regardless, OP mentioned it's Win2k.