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| M3talhead:
--- Quote from: Hiub1 on May 08, 2006, 12:37:46 am ---Hey guys, Just made a little video of what the whole bootup process can become following the instructions here. It's about 70 mb, anyone have some extra space floating around to host this thing with? If not, where should I upload it to. Thanks, Fred. --- End quote --- If you can slim it down a bit using a Divx encoder, I can host it. 70mb just seems a litle bloated. |
| Lilwolf:
GREAT idea! I think I might try it! --- Quote from: Level42 on May 07, 2006, 05:13:35 pm ---Drop an ancient video card into one of your PCI slots (NOT the one next to your AGP slot though !) and select PCI as your start-up graphics in the BIOS. You'll have a black screen from your AGP card until XP (or in your case W2K) kicks in. :) --- End quote --- |
| Havok:
--- Quote from: Lilwolf on May 10, 2006, 08:19:24 am ---GREAT idea! I think I might try it! --- Quote from: Level42 on May 07, 2006, 05:13:35 pm ---Drop an ancient video card into one of your PCI slots (NOT the one next to your AGP slot though !) and select PCI as your start-up graphics in the BIOS. You'll have a black screen from your AGP card until XP (or in your case W2K) kicks in. :) --- End quote --- --- End quote --- You may also have to go in and re-enable the original video after you put in a PCI card - some BIOS' disable the built-in after it detects another video card. |
| Hiub1:
--- Quote from: Lilwolf on May 10, 2006, 08:19:24 am ---GREAT idea! I think I might try it! --- Quote from: Level42 on May 07, 2006, 05:13:35 pm ---Drop an ancient video card into one of your PCI slots (NOT the one next to your AGP slot though !) and select PCI as your start-up graphics in the BIOS. You'll have a black screen from your AGP card until XP (or in your case W2K) kicks in. :) --- End quote --- --- End quote --- This works absolutely perfect! No 31 kHz signal sent to the monitor until Windows boots! |
| electricd:
Ok somehow I screwed up. I normally have no problems with regedits (seriously, im not a newb!) but for some reason now it doesn't start up explorer or mamewah. Just black screen. I can CTRL-ALT-DELETE and start either program from there and it is all fine, but won't do it automatically. I followed the procedure step by step, but still nothing. I tried to put my boot registry back to normal, but it still doesnt work. Can anyone look at this and see what the problem is? [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\system.ini\boot] @="SYS:Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\WOW\\boot" "ScreenSaverActive"="USR:Control Panel\\Desktop" "ScreenSaverIsSecure"="USR:Control Panel\\Desktop" "SCRNSAVE.EXE"="USR:Control Panel\\Desktop" "Shell"="SYS:Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon" |
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