I ran a series of downloads about a week ago after running a search on windows and evaluating those they suggested and followed through. My problem is I have lost the display on my machine ..a signal that says"no video input" on my moniter....even after attaching an add on Sceptre monitor. I know from all too familiar sounds during bootup that the computer is booting up and responding to commands such as password and somw keybord shortcuts....eg windows key and alt-cntrl-delete. Placing a CD in also spins the CD but with an audio cd I get no sound....I do not know without display how to initiate programs such as players. Where can I go from here with this. PDG

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--"I ran a series of downloads about a week ago after running a search on windows 
and >evaluating those they suggested and followed through."

Are you referring to Windows ME updates? There are no longer updates put out for 
ME and won't be new updates put out. Try restoring a registry backup. 

You'll need a ME startup diskette (boot disk). If you don't have one, you can create 
one on another PC. 

If you don't have access to another ME machine, a 98 startup disk will work, or download 
a ME boot disk image and create one on another system: Bootdisk.com 

To create a disk: Get a blank floppy diskette, go into Add/Remove programs. Click 
Startup Disk tab, then stick the floppy disk in drive and choose Create disk. Then 
boot with the startup disk in the floppy drive. 

At the A:\> prompt, type: C: scanreg /restore then press Enter. Choose a backup 
with the word Started, dated before this happened. Follow the prompts to restore 
the backup.

You should get a message that Windows successfully restored the registry. Then CTRL_ALT_DEL 
to get back into Windows. It's worth a try.



Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites

Thank you for your reply... my dilema now is I cannot proceed further without a functioning display; is there any option to performing these tasks "blind" eg..only utilizing the keyboard...


On Saturday, January 13, 2007 at 7:20 pm, Carol J wrote:
>
>--"I ran a series of downloads about a week ago after running a search on windows
>and >evaluating those they suggested and followed through."
>
>Are you referring to Windows ME updates? There are no longer updates put out for
>ME and won't be new updates put out. Try restoring a registry backup.
>
>You'll need a ME startup diskette (boot disk). If you don't have one, you can create
>one on another PC.
>
>If you don't have access to another ME machine, a 98 startup disk will work, or download
>a ME boot disk image and create one on another system: Bootdisk.com
>
>To create a disk: Get a blank floppy diskette, go into Add/Remove programs. Click
>Startup Disk tab, then stick the floppy disk in drive and choose Create disk. Then
>boot with the startup disk in the floppy drive.
>
>At the A:\> prompt, type: C: scanreg /restore then press Enter. Choose a backup
>with the word Started, dated before this happened. Follow the prompts to restore
>the backup.
>
>You should get a message that Windows successfully restored the registry. Then CTRL_ALT_DEL
>to get back into Windows. It's worth a try.
>
>
>

I forgot about the display even though it's the main problem. No, not that I know of. It sounds like you need someone to check things out for you.

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