Disabled graphics controller memory, now boot-up to black screen 1

[goosepig]

Hiya all,

In my extreme frustration in trying to get my new pci graphics card to work with onboard graphics, I have made a very stupid mistake.

After reading troubleshooter in properties, in device manager, I disabled Intel(r)82810E Graphics controller memory & Intel(r)82802 firmware hub device. I naively looked at the binary numbers (000A0000 - 000BFFFF), and because there were two instances of it (Intel(r)82810E Graphics controller & PCI bus) I thought disabling one of them would remedy the resource conflict problem, stopping me using my new pci card.

The screen is now black everytime I boot-up. I have tried booting up from windows xp cd-rom, and repairing xp, but still get black screen. Is there anything I can do in bios to fix this problem?

I have a dual boot computer, and can see the drive concerned from the other hard drive, if that helps at all.

I'm really desperate here, is there anything I can do without losing my stuff???????

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Many Thanks

Scott

 

[bcastner]

http://www.digitalwebcast.com/2002/03_mar/tutorials/cw_boot_toot.htm

 

[goosepig]

Thanks bcastner, worked a treat!!!!!

 

[bcastner]

You are very welcome.

I can image how difficult and scary this must have been; with the notion that there was no way out after the Device Manager changes.

Best,
Bill Castner