How to fix display problems in windows XP?

Question

Please pay attention to these premises:

- Someone else's computer monitor display got messed up so no image registers on the screen when the computer reboots.

- The computer CAN boot safely in safe mode, and the computer monitor shows safe mode properly. Yet, if you modify the display settings there, they don't translate to non-safe mode - so the problem remains.

- The computer is a laptop whose original screen doesn't work, so another monitor was set-up to use with this laptop. This second, standalone monitor is the one that now is not showing an image.

- I don't know what settings this person changed in display (again, I was not the person involved), but I believe it was the Display choice of monitor - that's why when the computer reboots, it sends its image to the laptop display (which is broken), and that's why we have the problem.

Essentially, then, I need to change the display settings in this computer - but cannot do it from safe-mode. Some ideas I have are:

- Save all relevant documents and reinstall XP.

- System Restore: I tried it, but it didn't work. The computer shows the same problem, even after trying different restore points.

- Create another user profile and work from that one.

- It's not the cables or the monitor itself (again, the monitor works with safe-mode).

Any lunchtime answers are appreciated, as long as they are thorough and from professionals. Thanks much.

Answer 1

--- This might be due do failure in display driver

---- or the video card would have been damaged

---= or there may be some spywares or malwares or viruses that may be

causing this problem

-----check for the connection in the motherboard too.

Answer 2

Delete the driver in safe mode and reboot.  It should set everything back to factor settings.

If that doesn't work, there could be a virus.  Run a virus checker in safe mode.  Some viruses don't work in safe mode, which is why the monitor works in safe mode and not otherwise.