Hi
Just about a week ago i hooked up my VGA cable to my laptop instead of my desktop. Then i turned on the desktop just to make all the network shares available. But then i about two days ago i tried to put the monitor back to the desktop but whenever i get past the windows loading screen it blanks out.

So i started it in safe mode. There i get another issue, it takes about an hour and a half to turn on. It loads all of the drivers and then gets to mup.sys and hangs. It dosent do anything for ages.

So i was wondering what is my best plan of attack? Should i just image the harddrive and reformat? is there a better way, i would rather not lose my data.

Cheers
Paul

You must try to restore your setting at some previous point through the windows restore utility.

Yes you could do that, but if that doesn't work I believe that you can fix XP with the XP installation CD.

You may also be able to copy the file from CD.

There was a previous post like this Here.

Here is another.

did the shares work before you switched the monitor back !
make sure the monitor is turned off ,start computer ,waiting a few minutes ,then turn on the monitor !