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hittme357

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disabled adapter
« on: January 03, 2008, 01:22:39 PM »
In my display settings under adapter properties I selected the drop down to disable device, after reboot the monitor is blank, I rebooted with my windows CD and ran through the repair current version with no luck. How can I fix my major screw up.
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Re: disabled adapter
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2008, 01:53:02 PM »
Boot into safe mode and reenable the device...you may need to re-install the drivers.
To enter safe mode tap F8 repeatedly on startup before you see the Windows splash screen...
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Re: disabled adapter
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2008, 03:32:23 PM »
Quote from: patio on January 03, 2008, 01:53:02 PM
Boot into safe mode and reenable the device...you may need to re-install the drivers.
To enter safe mode tap F8 repeatedly on startup before you see the Windows splash screen...
I tried and when booting to safe mode screen is black and you can see as the various files appear loading it stops and the last entry is windows\system32\drivers\gagp30K
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Re: disabled adapter
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2008, 04:00:12 PM »
How long did you wait ? ?
It may take up to 10 minutes if a corrupt driver or system file is missing...
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Re: disabled adapter
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2008, 06:15:34 PM »
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gagp30kx.sys is a special agp driver for via-chipset motherboards
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Re: disabled adapter
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2008, 09:54:50 AM »
It does not appear to be a generic Windows driver however as it is not in my listing of system32/drivers...this leads me to believe he isn't in safe mode.
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Re: disabled adapter
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2008, 03:49:57 PM »
I see...
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    Re: disabled adapter
    « Reply #7 on: January 04, 2008, 06:32:38 PM »
    Well strictly speaking Windows doesn't only load generic Windows drivers in safe mode. I know this because whenever I enter safe mode the last entry is the driver for Daemon Tools.
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