Boots to blank screen

[kelltech]

I was having trouble getting my mic to work so I installed an older nforce sound driver and uninstalled the newer one. Now my pc boots, i see the xp splash and then where the xp profile login should come up its completely blank...black screen. What is the safest way to roll this sucker back to safety?

I can get it to boot to safe mode, I'm just unsure what to do next  :-?

XP Pro
Asus Board, AMD Processor

[pcdoc4christ]

Kelltech:

Boot to Safe Mode and use the Windows XP option in Device Manager to roll back the driver.

Doc

[kelltech]

Ok, did this and I still get the black screen boot. Is it safe to go into safe mode and uninstall all nforce drivers/devices and reinstall?

[GX1_Man]

Yes, that is a good plan.

[kelltech]

Good news...I can boot into normal mode again.

Bad news: ide & secondary ide channels have gone wrong somehow and when windows attempts to install drivers for them it says "driver is not intended for this platform."

Also I noticed the video drivers were wiped out during this process. I thought maybe I should uninstall/reinstall those now too?

[patio]

Re-boot into Safe Mode and re-install your motherboard drivers...this should fix the IDE channels.
Then you can re-install the video drivers after you get a proper boot.

patio.   8-)