>>>Bruce, there should be an option to boot into VGA mode; doing that runs the default 640x480 VGA driver. You then fix and reboot as needed.
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>>Okay, we've repaired the damage. The time for the VGA-selection screen was set to 0, for security reasons. We made a bootup disk that set it back up to 15 seconds, so we can go in and fix it. Machine is now back.
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>Bruce,
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>PMFJI but for future reference, the time out should be stored in boot.ini in the boot drive home dir. c:\boot.ini here. If you can boot the machine and get access to it you can change it in a text editor. Mine looks like:
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[boot loader]
>timeout=5
>default=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
>[operating systems]
>scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00"
>scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos

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>If you can't boot to it you can always physically move the drive to another working machine as a second drive, boot the working machine and access the drive that way. (Had to do it a couple times myself after a couple stupid Roi tricks *s*)
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Another, better, option IMO if you've got the money to invest in a tool is Winternals' ERD Commander Pro, which creates an NT boot floppy with a command console and a great deal of useful command line functionality. it's paid for itself many times over for me. www.winternals.com - so far, they've produced a whole lot of winning software solutions such as NTFSDOS, FAT32 for WinNT, and a bunch of admin and recovery tools. These guys really know their stuff.