Help with a problem!

venim

venim

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Need your help again!
A friend of mine has disabled/delete from the device manager his vga card.
The problem is that whenever xp starts after the bar everything gets black!
Tried to run xp in safe mode but it's the same!
Switched the card with another but... the same!
Anyone help?
 
big_gie

big_gie

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boot to the recovery console.

for this, boot your XP cd and then type "R" for repair.

You should get to a "DOS style" shell.

I've found a program that can disable/enable hardware from a command prompt. Dunno if it will work in recovery console...

hum... whats the name... hum,... can't remember...:( Its an unofficial one from M$...

Just a sec, I'll go check on my other computer...
 
big_gie

big_gie

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ha HA!

its called devcon

microsoft.com said:
FILE: DevCon Command Line Utility Alternative to Device Manager

SUMMARY
The DevCon utility is a command line utility that acts as an alternative to Device Manager. Using DevCon, you can enable, disable, restart, update, remove, and query individual devices or groups of devices. DevCon provides information that is relevant to the developer and is not available in Device Manager.

You can use DevCon with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. You cannot use Devcon with Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Millennium Edition.
MORE INFORMATION
DevCon is not redistributable. It is provided for use as a debugging and development tool. You can freely modify DevCon for private use. The sample demonstrates how to use the SetupAPI and CfgMgr32 functions together effectively to enumerate devices and perform device operations. The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center
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I use it to enable/disable my Wifi card on my laptop when I go online/offline from a .js script.

You can get it @
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q311/2/72.asp&NoWebContent=1

good luck!
 
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