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BAD= Radeon 7500 Video Card and Windows 200 Professional. Please help!!!

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thatsright

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I am So SCREWED.

I just uninstalled a Raedon 7500 video card from my Windows 2000 professional machine, as I returned the card. What I did In W2K device manager, I disabled the 'Raedon 7500 Video Display.' I then turned off the pc and removed the card and returned the card to the store were I bought it.

Then when I turned the PC on when I got home, I keep on getting a windows 2000 Blue screen of death error message, saying: Inaccessible Video Driver (and then a bunch of error codes). I can't boot into my Win2k Pro rig, and I've tried Emergency Repair Disk & the Emergency Boot disk set. Yet both times I tried I still get the same error message and I can't get into Windows.

Anyone know any idea of how I can stop windows from obsessively looking for this driver for the card that doesn't exist; and do all of this without (so far) being able to get into Windows 2000 Professional????

Thanks a lot and someone please help me out.
 
Plus, I have already tried booting into safe mode and I get the same error message 'Video Driver failed to initialize.' Even in safe mode!! I have tried every option in the safe mode menue, and still the same result. Any other thoughts; anyone, please. Thanks again.
 
1st thing- THAT IS NOT THE WAY TO UNINSTALL A VIDEO CARD- use the uninstaller that is in Add&Remove programs. That way you willl get most of the garbage that the driver installs back off of the system.


2nd- Never disable a video device in Windows. That will lead to bad thingsssss very baaaddd ttthhhiinnggss.

Now try this. Press F8 and select VGA mode. the OS will boot in regular mode but with no video driver loaded. From there reenable the driver and then in Device Manager(or Mangler) right click and select uninstall device. Reboot and see if it will com up. Also you can try to uninstall the driver from add/remove programs at the same time.

This should work- If not then let me know and I will recreate what you did at work tomorrow and call a guy that I know at ATI and see what he thinks about it.
 
Thanks panther for the suggestions........but

I have already tried to go into sfae mode & then VGA Mode, and I get the same result= 'Video Driver failed to initialize.' I think it is still looking for the Raedon 7500 Video card hardware that is no longer on the motherboard. I have already returned the card, and didn't turn on the machine after that for like 2 days.

I am ready to pull all the remaining hair out of my head over this. Anyother suggestions, as I can not even boot into safe mode. Nada.

Thanks a lot

To re-cap how I screwed up:

1. Went into device manager, and disabled the video card.
2. Shutdown the PC.
3. Removed the Raedon 7500 AGP video card, and put back in my old Creative Labs Riva TNT AGP card (yep, the card thats 4 years old)
4. Nothing but hell ever since.
 
U learned an important lesson ;-)

anyways, I dont know of a way to get it working.. should be possible but you're time will be better spent rebuilding it... should be able to rebuild any system in about 3 hours or less....
 
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