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AmericanDemon:
But in the Bios you can set the system to not Halt on Errors.  Thus the keyboard not being plugged in would not stop it.  

The issue at hand though is if he swaps out the Video card, then he can get into Safe Mode, but if the ArcadeVGA is in the system it locks.

Its the ArcadeVGA card, but I would test it by sticking it in another system and seeing if it locks that one too.
Knoxximus:

--- Quote from: DaveJ-UK on May 15, 2004, 09:55:40 am ---
I had problems under 2000 with swapping a regular video card for ArcadeVGA. In the end I used an old PCI graphics card to install Windows and set everything up, then I installed the ArcadeVGA and installed the drivers.

--- End quote ---

I'm going to try this approach.  I had to shell out 37 bucks for a PCI card, but if I can solve this riddle in 7 days, I get the loot back.  I guess I have to go into the BIOS and tell the comp to boot from PCI video or something?
SirPeale:
You might have to, but I doubt it.
Knoxximus:
OK, so now the comp works just fine with the PCI card, and I even managed to  load the AVGA Drivers and the comp recognizes the card as such.  However....when I try to install the ATI control panel, after I restart like it tells me to, when windows comes back up I get this error box that basically says that the ATI control panel cannot be installed because there is no ATI driver....but the AVGA says "working properly" in the device manager.  THEN, if I try to boot with just the AVGA, it still hangs after the Device boot list....there is a line of code just underneath that says something like "nvidia-geforce-<insert random numbers here>", so I slapped the Ge4 back in, unistalled that compeltely, jammed the AVGA back in, and still get the same crap.  What gives?
SirPeale:
You could try reinstalling Windows, this time start off with the AVGA.
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