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Solve : Disabled video settigns..........now no display?

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Hi all

Just found this forum and it looks interesting. I just got a call from a friend who has been tinkering with his Dell Inspiron 6400 Laptop. Not sure why, but he disabled the ATI video card he has onboard ( I think to work out some compatibility issues with a game) and in trying other things, he disabled the onboard VGA drivers as well. His machin boots, he can get into Bios, but there is obviously nothing displayed on his monitor. Any suggestions.
BTW, he is running Win XP SP2 but I do not know the other specs. He is home for the holidays however he did not bring any of his original recovery etc. discs with him.

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Just found this forum and it looks interesting.
You got that right

Can he boot in safe mode? (with display)
Tap F8 whilst starting to get into safe mode.
Also, did he disable the video in BIOS?
If so, try re-enabling it in the BIOS.
Hope this helps somewhat.Not sure about the safe mode, I will ask. He did go into bios and RESET all factory defaults but the issue persists. No, he did not disable the video in the bios but rather from some systems PROPERTY menu.

BTW, love the fast response. Glad I found this place.I figured he'd probably not disabled it in the BIOS, otherwise he'd probably have just reset it already.
Check about safe mode, it might help.
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BTW, love the fast response. Glad I found this place.
The fast response is because I have no LIFE, I just roam this forum looking for things to post . . . joking.
I'm glad I found this place as well, even though I came looking to give advice more than receive.Hey there, I'm the guy that made the mistake, I've tried safe mode, it doesn't work, any other suggestions? I've also tried Enable VGA mode, Last Known Good Configuration, Directory Services Restore Mode (it says that it is booting in safe mode, then checks the file system on C: - says that it's clean, then does nothing), Safe Mode goes through a list of stuff, the last one being:
"multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\Mup.sys"
it then freezes.
Any help is appreciatedHave a read here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mup.sysAt this point I WOULD try a repair installing using your recovery disks. Or if you don't mind losing the data on your harddrive, a format and clean install would probably solve the problem... but you'd lose your data

Be careful when disabling things in the future


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