video driver fails to initialize

[hyperaesthetic]

I spent my 4 day weekend trying to revive my sick computer. I am not sure which is sicker of the two: my computer or the timing of having to fix the computer on my 4 day weekend. I hope you guys can shed some insight on my problem. The problem started when I tried to install a new driver for Hercules Kyro 2 4500 Tv-out (64meg). The most recent driver installation program doesn't work well and a lot of people are having problems installing the new driver. I was one of them. After installation, the error message came up saying the installation had some problems and also I need to reboot the computer. Well, I rebooted and the problems started. I first got 'system file corrupted' message, but managed to fix it by recovering the system files with installation disk. I ended up being able to bootup in safe-mode. In the safe mode I deleted the driver and reinstalled the old, functioning driver. Unfortunately the situation has gotten worse because after being able to update the video driver, now the computer wont even finish bootup either in safe-mode or the normal mode. It would go to the very end and when it's supposed to turn over to the log-on screen, it gives me the blue screen of death with a error message saying 'video driver failed to initialize' At this point, I tried to revive the existing window 2000 installed in the hard drive and doing the recovery and chkdsk renders no errors. When I bootup again, the same thing continues to happen.

I feel as though the problem is not hard to fix, but not being able to install the good driver makes the problem seemingly irrepairable.

I appreciate your responses and hope you have some more ideas. If there is a dos driver installer, that would perhaps solve the problem, I don't know....

Thank you

 

[lobadobadingdong]

6 words

wipe-out and re-install everything from scratch.

Time and time again, this fixes flaky driver problems....
Aren't you glad you make frequent back-ups of your data files?

This may not be what you wanted to here, and someone else may be able to get you running, but this way insures you clean the registry and the problems stay gone.

 

[ScrewFace]

I'd have to concur with lobadobadingdong (cool name!). It's not fun but a clean install of everything'll do the trick. I just installed my new MSI GeForce4-Ti4400 and thought that I had wiped out anything to do with my 128MB retail RADEON 8500. Well, I was getting all kinds of wierd problems like my 3DMark2001 score dropping from 9,620 to 6,200 so I reformatted and reinstalled everything and my card works perfectly now.