Buddy disabled his VGA adapter...any suggestions?

Believe me
I have an MCSE/A+/CCNA and have taught A+

It's just one of those things that never got patched in XP because most plug n play eliminated the need for disabling adapters.

Yeah, the geek actually explained how to do it in device manager, so he did do it on purpose. I met the geek before.

One of those dicks that acts like they know more than anyone.
I asked him where something was in a mac preferences once, just to test his knowledge(he was selling the mac to another friend, I suggested he buy it, it was a good deal). Not so bright, more like a B student. Terrible customer skills.

If he had done it in bios I wouldn't have had any prob.

No, this bugger did it on purpose.

Like the guy who told another friend 10 years ago to put his keyboard in the dishwasher.

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#178114 - 02/11/11 11:41 AM Re: Buddy disabled his VGA adapter...any suggestions? [Re: Anartist]
HarryB ghast hacker Registered: 06/10/01 Posts: 18835 Loc: $$	found this. Quote: First off let me begin by saying I build and repair computers for a living so this is good advide comming from a valid source. Let me explain what started it all to shed some light on things. The Evil Kyro 64mb card was made cheaper than most due to the fact they did not research or make drivers that were ever glitch free. Every driver you find for this card will have a glitch some where. I have found only one out of the hundreds that does decent but it will not work correctly In 1024x768 mode. all others work excellent. I will repost later as to where to find that driver. Your current problem is that you have told windows to ignore that video card itself. So as soon as windows takes over it cuts your card out of the picture. Does your bios screen still show on initial 5-15 seconds of boot? If so this could be of use. If the mother board has onboard video you will need to use it to fix this problem.. If it does not you will need a different card. I assume youre using the agp slot seeing as the was no pci version of this card made. So you will need a pci card. If you dont have one you cand find them really cheap under 15 bucks. you wont need anything fancy as this is just to fix a problem. Stick it in let window install it. Go back to where you disabled video, re-enable it put your other card in and your good to go. Same if you have onboard video, you just wont need to use another card. If you cannot do any of the above theres always the format and reinstall window option. If youve got files you want to keep slave the drive and transffer them to a working computer first..I hope this is of some help.. Quote: Now, if you are lucky and have an on-board display adapter as well as the plug in type, simply enable the onboard item in BIOS and connect the display to this onboard adapter interface, then reboot to XP and fix your mess. If not, then borrow another AGP card from a mate and boot up with this: Windows will detect the new AGP adapter, install the drivers and continue to boot normally. Then remove the old 'disabled' adapter and power off. Replace the borrowed AGP card with your and boot up. Again, Windows will detect the new AGP adapter, install the drivers and continue to boot normally. last option I would try is pushing out a remote install of vnc and remote into it and hopefully you'll get a visual and be able to enable it. I have vnc on all my machines just in case a graphic card goes and for remote management. another option is if you have another pc, on that you can go to computer management, then connect to the messed up pc and reenable it that way. _________________________ I got your salvation b*tch wanna go night night fool.
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