Hey everyone, well I have a computer that is running Windows XP pro.
There have been issues with it, the main one has been that when you would start the computer you would get a message on the monitor completely unrelated to the computer. It was like a monitor self-test screen or something. I couldn't even get the start up screen to come up.
But...I worked with it a bit, cleaned it out, checked all the cables ect and got it running again. Now the first problem I came to was that the resolution was 600x400 and color was 4 bit. So the first thing I started working on was just to go into the settings and fix that. Well come to find out, I was not able to change resolution or color quality. I then called a friend that knows more than me about computers and he suggested that I am having a problem reading my video card. (I had put in a new one a year or so ago and had been working fine.) So he said I should try disabling the card and see if it just ran the integrated graphics or something like that.
So, I ended up disabling what I thought was the graphics card, it then told me I ahd to restart to apply the settings, so I did. and since then I have not gotten past the Windows start up screen. The little green bar goes like its loading, then the screen just goes black. It boots into safe mode and I have tried every other option I have of starting it and I just get the same thing.
I really have no clue whats going on with it or what I can do to help. I have a feeling whatever I disabled caused this problem. Im trying to go back through my steps on this computer to be able to tell you just what I disabled. all i can remember was it was something in the monitor settings. like, control panel-display-settings-advanced-monitor tab and it was there i think....
if there is anything that comes to mind for me to try I would appreciate it so much. thanks in advance...