|By the way, I tried attaching my newer laptop to my external monitor
|and it works perfectly with the screen on the external monitor
|showing exactly what is on the laptop.
| John Conte
|
The sooner you do SCANREG/RESTORE on the bad unit,
the less likely you will have to reinstall Windoze on it.
After 5 boot-days (by default) following your last successful Windoze startup,
you lose your last chance to use your last remaining valid backup. 
cache of http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1045357908
++5-backups.by.default++as.soon.as.possible


|Since I cannot see what is happening on my screen, how do I start in Safe Mode[?]
|I assume I have to press a function key as my Thinkpad is booting up.
|
Yup.  That's the easy way.  The most direct route:
http://www.google.com/search?q=to.start.in.safe.mode+F5

If you know what is supposed to appear on the screen, you could use F8 or Ctrl.
http://www.searchengines.pl/phpbb203/pliki/picasso/virus/safe8.gif

A method that gives you a useful screen without requiring device drivers
seems the least vexing.
Using a DOS boot floppy gets you that.
http://www.google.com/search?q=safe.mode+win.d.m


|Even if I can start in Safe Mode, once in it, how do I type in Scanreg/restore.
|
The Safe Mode suggestion was just a lower-level diagnostic try;
the 2 are not related the way you jammed them together.

Safe Mode uses a GENERIC device driver;
that may have given an indication of what's happening.

A bootable floppy (your "Startup Disk")
is the sure way to get to DOS.



|I can't see anything.
|
Gee thanks, Microsoft.
Making everything GUI-driven works so well when folks are really up against it.

BTW, did you ever click on the link in my first post?

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