Vista users: can you do me a favour?

[marlinman]

I've just uninstalled my NVidia video drivers (to prepare PC for latest forceware version). System rebooted, I logged in fine, closed the 'welcome' window, then suffered a loss of signal to the monitor. Now, I don't like hard resets so I found a shortcut to restart the PC from that state. Sadly, on reboot the monitor's 'gone black' before I've even reached the login screen! [Should have pressed f8 maybe ].

Can some good soul tell me what keys to press to restart the machine from the login screen?

 

[techmanc]

Does booting into safemode help. You get that by tapping the F8 key at bootup then choose safe mode.

 

[marlinman]

Thx for your reply tech - eventually realised I could try 'blindly' clicking on the red 'shutdown' button, and finally managed to do so. Had the same problem with the Win7 beta - and the solution here seems to be identical: unplug the telly and the 2nd monitor from the video card!

 

[techmanc]

YW, I have uninstalled NVIDIA graphic drivers from Vista and XP a lot of times and they always fallen back to VGA drivers glad you got it working.