Bell
Frosties > Cornflakes
+362|6812|UK

On my girlfriends computer, she has been complaining of late of it running slow and been on my case about fixing it for weeks.  She descided she was bored waiting and did it herself.  Wrongly by the looks of it.

Am not entirely certain what shes done, it appears she did the restore, then, did another one, immedietly after.  The machine hung for a bit, and she forced a shut down by pulling the plug on it.

Now, when I try and run it for her, I get a blank screen after the loading window.  All the start up windows appear fine, even, the vista loading page (with the bar), but as soon as it clears that, it just sits on a blank screen.

Am in safe mode right now, was wondering if there was any theroys on how to get it sorted.  I cant even seem to do the F8 trick, screen just goes blank every time I do anything other than safe mode

Cheers

Martyn
GC_PaNzerFIN
Work and study @ Technical Uni
+528|6677|Finland

[in safe mode]
remove gfx drivers
remove the display adapter from hw management

-> reboot

Install new gfx driver

Last edited by GC_PaNzerFIN (2009-06-03 10:04:43)

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King_County_Downy
shitfaced
+2,791|6860|Seattle

If re-installing the gfx card doesn't solve it, go back into safe mode, start --> run msconfig and do a diagnostic start up. Then you can start to narrow it down to what program/service is causing the hang.
Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it
Bell
Frosties > Cornflakes
+362|6812|UK

ahh I can see what shes done now, thanks fellas. +1
King_County_Downy
shitfaced
+2,791|6860|Seattle

All set then? Would you like me to lock the thread?
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Bell
Frosties > Cornflakes
+362|6812|UK

Yep go ahead
DonFck
Hibernator
+3,227|6894|Finland

Wanna tell us what it was so that we don't have to hunt you down when someone experiences a similar problem?
I need around tree fiddy.

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