

if not.ġ, use the up and down arrow keys to go to your user, and hit enter to select. If you log in automatically, all well and good. I recommend pressing alt-f4 a few times after startup to make sure any startup programs get closed and then doing these instructions. Also beware of "found new hardware" wizard etc popping up at system startup interfereing with these instructions.


Solution: Here is Spikes original solution (thanks Spike) with a note for step 5. Safe mode hangs each time and "VGA Mode" does nothing different. Phenomena: accidentally disabled the display adapter and after the XP loading screen you get nothing. Spikes solution finally ended up working with one change and I thought I would post it here in case anyone else had the same gut wrenching experience (thanks Microsoft). I logged into linux to get on the net and found the thread solved by Spike and also by glowingnissan07 on this issue and found that neither of these threads solved the problem exactly. I just recovered from accidentally disabling my display adapter (*****).
