video display Please help.

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Ron Thetford

I have xp and video will not display after the Window XP screen with the 3"
blue progress bar. After that it just goes black.

I can boot up in safe mode and even get on internet to post this. Does
anyone know if a video card can go bad, but still work in Safe Mode. Trying
to decide to try another video card or not, or do I just reload XP.
 
One guess: the graphics may have somehow been set into a mode that your
monitor does not support. (Some monitors simply go black when driven out of
range; others will display an error message.)

In safe mode, set the display resolution to 640X480, and the refresh to 60
Hz. Reboot into normal Windows, and change the resolution and refresh rates
to a usable values.

If you have the proper monitor .inf installed, and have the "hide modes that
this monitor cannot display" checked on the Monitor tab, that ought to
protect you against this sort of thing.

Otherwise, uninstalling and re-installing your graphics card drivers may be
worth trying. I doubt that there's a hardware problem.

Good luck.

Bob Knowlden

Address may be altered to avoid spam. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
 
When you are in Safe Mode, Windows just loads a generic video driver for
your graphics card and it sounds like that works fine. So it sounds like
your video card driver software is corrupted. I would next uninstall your
video card driver and then do a fresh install of the latest driver version
from the manufactuer's www site.
 
If the image will only display in Safe Mode, which loads a generic video
driver instead of the card's manufacturer's driver, it means that your video
card driver is corrupted. Uninstall your video card driver and then
reinstall a fresh copy from the manufacturer's web site.
 
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