No default graphics card to run machine on

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When installing Windows XP Corporate on the main machine
in my room, the grahpics card decided to play up and not
work So after a bit of messing around i had found that
the card was not installed and not even showing up on the
system information. So when i went to control pannel,
appearance and themes, display,settings, advanced, for
adapter nothing was showing. So in my haste i managed to
disable the intergrated graphics card which isn't my main
graphics card but was at the time. So now when i start my
pc up, it gets before the loading bar and where you have
the option to login, it just stops loading there. Also,
when the graphics card was working properly the first
thing you'd see on the moniter was the graphics card name
etc. Which still shows up even though the problem is
still there. There must be a command to enable the
default graphics card or something. Any ideas?
 
When installing Windows XP Corporate on the main machine
in my room, the grahpics card decided to play up and not
work So after a bit of messing around i had found that
the card was not installed and not even showing up on the
system information. So when i went to control pannel,
appearance and themes, display,settings, advanced, for
adapter nothing was showing. So in my haste i managed to
disable the intergrated graphics card which isn't my main
graphics card but was at the time. So now when i start my
pc up, it gets before the loading bar and where you have
the option to login, it just stops loading there. Also,
when the graphics card was working properly the first
thing you'd see on the moniter was the graphics card name
etc. Which still shows up even though the problem is
still there. There must be a command to enable the
default graphics card or something. Any ideas?
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Press F8 to boot into Safe Mode which will use the default SVGA driver
and allow you to install the correct driver.

To enable internal graphics card, you need to load BIOS Setup screen
which can be F1, F2, DEL etc depending on BIOS you are using.
There you can enable it.

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/
 
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