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Old February 22nd 17, 10:51 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Restoring MIcrosoft Basic Display Adapter

Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 22/02/2017 4:47 PM, Paul wrote:
Do you have System Protection enabled on C: ?
Is there a System Restore point from before the mistake happened ?


I turned them all off.
A second possibility, is open Device Manager and see if there
is an option to "roll back" the driver. Driver roll back is
one level deep. You can put back the previous driver, before
you made a change.


Problem is the Display section has gone.

That's all that comes to mind, short of using a backup
you made of the OS C: partition at some point. For example,
I made one backup of C: already, before doing some experiments,
so I occasionally have something sitting there which can be used.


Guess I should just reinstall the whole OS.


In Device Manager, did you try Action : Scan for hardware changes ?

You really shouldn't be able to lose the display.

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Have you done a reboot yet ?

The hardware should be rediscovered on a reboot,
in the same way as the "scan for hardware changes" works.

Please try to provide details about how you got
to the current situation. Did you select "uninstall"
while the Display adapter was open in Device Manager ?
If so, the hardware will be rediscovered on the next
scan for changes.

Paul


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