re: PS
Monday, April 2, 2007 at 6:55 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(659 messages posted)
Another possible solution is to open the Device Manager:
START > SETTINGS > CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM > DEVICE MANAGER
In Device Manager, highlight the Display Adapter:
1. Click on the "+" sign next to 'Display Adapters'.
2. Click on the actual (named) adapter.
3. Then delete the named adapter by clicking "Remove".
If there are any entries with an exclamation mark against them (which indicates a
fault), remove those entries also, in the same way.
Then reboot. Windows will automatically re-install the correct drivers in the course
of the reboot. You may have to point the install wizard to the location of the proper
driver, which is probably one of these locations -
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS
Alternatively, this type of fault can be caused by a driver conflict with a driver
for a device that's not in use. Such drivers only show up in Safe Mode, which shows
all installed drivers (only those for the devices currently attached to the system
are shown while in normal mode).
So if the solution above doesn't cure the fault, reboot into SAFE mode. Then open
the Device Manager again, and (using the same procedure as explained above) delete
all "ghost" entries seen there, i.e. those entries that ONLY show up in Safe Mode.
Then reboot again, into normal mode.
Ed
On Monday, March 19, 2007 at 12:54 am, Ed wrote:
>A possible solution is to reboot to the DOS prompt, and at the C: prompt type this:
>
> SCANREG /RESTORE
>
>Then follow the on-screen instructions to restore a working version of the Windows
>Registry from before the problem arose.
>
>By default Windows keeps five backup copies of the Registry, one each day, so you
>can go back (a maximum of) 5 days.
>
>Ed
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>
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- re: Help Support/Safe Mode (Ed: Monday, March 19, 2007 at 1:54 am)
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