This may help;
No Items Appear in the Device Manager List When You Open It
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311504

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> hi,
> new here. i loaded a game that was not meant for xp and it evitually went
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lmn1220 - 03 May 2008 23:16 GMT
the problem is i can't use my monitor. it's black it doesn't go on. the
driver for the monitor is gone too. therefore i can't get on my computer to
do anything. i saw this posting before which is helpful and i knew about
that but i can't use my monitor so i can't do that.

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> This may help;
> No Items Appear in the Device Manager List When You Open It
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> > thanks
lmn1220 - 03 May 2008 23:17 GMT
also i did take my hard out and put it into another computer can i do
something from my hard drive to correct this problem?
thanks

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> This may help;
> No Items Appear in the Device Manager List When You Open It
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> > thanks
lmn1220 - 04 May 2008 00:01 GMT
also i took out my hard drive and put it into another computer. is there any
way i can access device manager through there?
thanks

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> also i did take my hard out and put it into another computer can i do
> something from my hard drive to correct this problem?
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> > > thanks
I forgot you said the monitor does not work, Can you boot into Safe Mode? If
so try to boot with VGA mode.
"PaulM" <paul@paulsxp.com> wrote in message news:...
> This may help;
> No Items Appear in the Device Manager List When You Open It
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>> thanks