Help, I’m an idiot.
We got a few donated PC’s in this week and the display is horrible… looks like a bad driver? controller? at any rate, the graphics card has NO stats… no trademark… DirectX gave me a big NADA on make model etc.
So, I disabled(yes I now know this is stupid) the “unknown” graphics controller which resulted in a reboot. Now the machine boots to black… the only video output is the windows startup screen… I think the computer is in fact working… but I can’t see anything. I tried safe mode bootup but all I get is a blinking cursor. Enabling VGA doesn’t work, it just boots to black.
This is a mystery machine, it has WinXP and God knows what else… no disks, no docs. My next step, since my F8 options don’t seem to work, is to pull the HD out, put it in a different machine (with different graphics card) and hope to God it works, then from there reactivate the blessed controller that halfway works. Before I go to gutting various computers and making things worse, any ideas?
PS the graphics card looks integrated.
Thanks
Joy Payton, aci
