[AccessD] No display adapter

John,

If this machine is running windows XP then have you tried restoring your
system to where it was before you hit the problem?  From the On-Line
Help....

"To access the System Restore Wizard, click Start, and then click Help and
Support. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Using System Restore to
undo changes, and then click Run the System Restore Wizard. 
Creating a restore point can be useful any time you anticipate making
changes to your computer that are risky or might make your computer
unstable. 
To view or to return to this restore point, from the Welcome to System
Restore screen of the System Restore Wizard select Restore my computer to an
earlier time. Then select the date when the restore point was created from
the calendar in the Select a Restore Point screen. All of the restore points
that were created on the selected date are listed by name in the list box to
the right of the calendar". 

Lambert

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:32 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] No display adapter


I can reinstall from scratch, however I like to save my old hard drive,
simply because there is always something that didn't get saved and whatever
it is, it is the most critical thing on your hard disk.  Thus it is nice to
be able to xcopy or otherwise "ghost" the entire hard disk out or... Just
use a new hard drive.

Doing a clean windows install is NOT a trivial task.  I have encryption
software (drivers) for mounting encrypted drives, mapped to specific drive
locations, Office 2k, XP and 2003, SQL Server, Norton AV (which I JUST
purchased), and all the millions of other things that get installed along
the way over a three year period.

This is my dev machine and it will take me several days to get back to work,
in fact I may be forced to move all my work over to a desktop machine while
I do this.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 1:34 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] No display adapter

But John, if you get a new hard drive then you will have to do all that PITA
stuff also - right?

I don't understand the new hard drive aspect - or did I miss something?

You could just as well reinstall XP from scratch on the old harddrive rather
than using the repair option.

I'm sorry I can't remember exactly what I did to resolve the issue I had
with the video driver problem. It sounds like it was exactly what your
dealing with. It could have even been on a laptop. I know the solution
wasn't anything so drastic but I didn't document it :o(

If you can wait, I'll bet it comes to me at 3:00AM tomorrow morning!

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:09 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] No display adapter

Yea, that is my last gasp effort before buying a new hard disk and
rebuilding the system.

Repairing a Windows install is what I did before and it was a PITA, with the
typical issues - 2 hours to do the install (!!!!!), have to call Microsoft
to get a new key because the network isn't initialized at that point, etc.
etc. 


John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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