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Old 07-27-2008, 06:08 PM
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Monitor boot device screen is blank


so, i just finished reinstalling xp on my compy, well two xp os's on two separate hard drives... but now when i press f8 to go to the boot device screen, it is blank. it still works, if i go 'down, down, enter' to select my second hard drive, but i cant see what im doing.
otherwise my video card seems to be working fine. i get the motherboard screen, and i watch the xp loading screen, but that one screen just doesnt show up.
any ideas?
i tried my best to google it, but havent found anyone with the same problem.
thanks in advance



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If I were you, I would use GAG which is a boot manager to see if that solves the problem...

GAG, the Graphical Boot Manager



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