Both monitor and screen is off, but i see windowsxp start up

Hi,

I accidentally disabled both my screen and monitor for my acer travelmate 800, i have a radion 9000 graphics card.

i know where to go change it back but cant see to navigate there and cant remember how many clicks with the key board, its when i right click on the desk top and go to graphics, does anybody have an idea of wat to do please?

Thanks :)

i can get into bios, but my pc wont start in safe mode, i've left it loading for over a day, i can see the bios and the windows start up screen, but the setting i changed causes windows to disable both monitor and my screen. im not sure why i cant start it in safe mode, i've never done it before.

I really appreciate your interest

Thank You

hi, yes i can get into f8 menu, but it does nothing when i click last know good configuration, i tried that too.

I was trying to set up my pc, so that when the tv is on the pc screen goes off, nd vice versa, i accidentally put the pc screen off too while the tv was in off mode, now both are off, it was the 1st time i connected a pc to the tv, my girlfriends is working fine, but i tried to be too clever with my own :(

thanks for your help too, any other suggestions?

(i recently formatted my harddrive and put a new windows on, i didnt bother making a restore point, thats why i think yr suggestion's not working either)

Hi qhn, i just tried yr sugestion, but no luck either, i did it in the order that you recommend, and again and again.

i requsted my windows disc to be posted from south africa to new zealand where i am now, it does not display when i insert the disc.

got anymore ideas pls?

Thank You

(on the forum there is a guy that had the same problem, but he was running windows 7, he had the amount of keyboard clicks written down, doesnt work with xp though, seems he got hes solved)

i now disconnected my pcs monitor while it was running, hoping that windows will recognise a new device, still nothing, i dont know why it doesnt load in safe mode, theres a very quick prompt while safe mode starts saying press enter if i wana continue, it runs a few lines after that, but it does the same if i just leave it, im trying to start in safe mode by f10 this time, ill wait a day to see if it starts up. i was really hoping that when my xp disc arrives, that it will recognise it, and display the disc, now that it doesnt, im now even more dissapointed!

Is there a way to get into my pc with an ethernet cable or something? remembering that i cant see anything to allow any access from a foreign pc....

Hi again Qhn,

ive just bout given up, got my disc, reinstalled windows, all my stuff was in hidden files, need to reinstall all my drivers, so im now gona backup my goodies and do a reformat and start over, just cant get myself round to doing it, never formatted a pc myself b4, think i got all drivers in 1 folder that i can save too, thank goodness i always save my stuff to my hard drive, else it would be gone!

Thank you for your help and patience

Douglas Laas :)

Hi again qhn,

Im in serious trouble now, i formatted my pc 3 times already now!

(my info is still safe somewhere)

it is now so slow! i got drivers from the acer website, i dont know what im doing wrong, i get everything working, but its very slow now, i dont think it can be a hard ware problem coz nothing else has changed!

i had trouble the 1st time, it sais i must insert service pack 2 cd, i tried my disk, no luck, i down loaded it to my 8gig stick, it works now, very slow, but i cant format my stick iether!

do you have any idea wat im doing wrong?

i deleted the only partition i had, started fresh, now my pc is too sad for words!!

its mainly the internet thats slowing it down, thought it was my mcafee antivirus, so i tried again with out it, still the same.

I think i need a step by step on how to format my pc and how to get the right drivers on, in wat order and anything else that i may have missed.

i tried my best not to have to ask you again, but, alas, im lost!!

sorry, but thanx if you can have a look for me please.

Doug...