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September 2nd 05, 11:59 PM
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Cursor Disappears
Hello,
I have just recently been having this problem. When I boot up my Windows 98 SE computer I am presented with the "Enter Network Password for Microsoft Networking" screen. At this moment my cursor disappears. Even if I use the keyboard to select okay or cancel, the cursor does not reappear. I'd rather boot up without this enter password thing as I haven't entered a password. I tried booting the computer up in Safe Mode and my cursor worked fine. I even tried shutting down all the other stuff except the systemtray in msconfig, and I'm still having this problem. It seemed to start after I tried reinstalling my video card driver. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. 
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September 3rd 05, 01:02 AM
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"Alex" wrote in message news  Hello, I have just recently been having this problem. When I boot up my Windows 98 SE computer I am presented with the "Enter Network Password for Microsoft Networking" screen. At this moment my cursor disappears. Even if I use the keyboard to select okay or cancel, the cursor does not reappear. I'd rather boot up without this enter password thing as I haven't entered a password. I tried booting the computer up in Safe Mode and my cursor worked fine. I even tried shutting down all the other stuff except the systemtray in msconfig, and I'm still having this problem. It seemed to start after I tried reinstalling my video card driver. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. I had a similar problem due to video card/driver problems Why not go back to the original driver you were using for your video card
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September 3rd 05, 01:13 AM
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The problem seems pretty obvious. Those video drivers you installed aren't
the right ones. Go back to your previous ones if you can, or find better ones. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Alex" wrote in message news Hello, I have just recently been having this problem. When I boot up my Windows 98 SE computer I am presented with the "Enter Network Password for Microsoft Networking" screen. At this moment my cursor disappears. Even if I use the keyboard to select okay or cancel, the cursor does not reappear. I'd rather boot up without this enter password thing as I haven't entered a password. I tried booting the computer up in Safe Mode and my cursor worked fine. I even tried shutting down all the other stuff except the systemtray in msconfig, and I'm still having this problem. It seemed to start after I tried reinstalling my video card driver. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
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September 3rd 05, 07:22 AM
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Thank you very much for the answers. I agree removing the drivers would seem
the most obvious, in fact I did just that. Right now Device manager lists simply the generic Windows 98 driver, yet I'm still having the same problem. Any further advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Alex "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: The problem seems pretty obvious. Those video drivers you installed aren't the right ones. Go back to your previous ones if you can, or find better ones. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Alex" wrote in message news Hello, I have just recently been having this problem. When I boot up my Windows 98 SE computer I am presented with the "Enter Network Password for Microsoft Networking" screen. At this moment my cursor disappears. Even if I use the keyboard to select okay or cancel, the cursor does not reappear. I'd rather boot up without this enter password thing as I haven't entered a password. I tried booting the computer up in Safe Mode and my cursor worked fine. I even tried shutting down all the other stuff except the systemtray in msconfig, and I'm still having this problem. It seemed to start after I tried reinstalling my video card driver. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
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September 3rd 05, 07:48 AM
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You're taking about the video drivers? (aka Display drivers?) Sounds to me
like you're talking about the monitor drivers. The only generic drivers in Win98 for video/display are named things like "Standard VGA" and are easily recognized as being installed because they offer only the most basic configurations--low resolution, low color density, etc. Whereas the most typical driver you'll find in Windows for monitors is "Plug & Play" generic drivers. There often *are* proprietary drivers available for monitors, but they're seldom necessary and seldom actually used in Windows 98 and above. Regardless, you can't uninstall drivers, You have to either uninstall the device entirely, and then prevent Windows from automatically reinstalling the device if necessary, or you install different drivers to replace the existing ones. Please go here and download Everest Home Edition. www.lavalys.som Run Everest and see what it says you have for a "Display" or "Video" device. Also, if possible, describe the drivers you installed and where you got it from. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Alex" wrote in message ... Thank you very much for the answers. I agree removing the drivers would seem the most obvious, in fact I did just that. Right now Device manager lists simply the generic Windows 98 driver, yet I'm still having the same problem. Any further advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Alex "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: The problem seems pretty obvious. Those video drivers you installed aren't the right ones. Go back to your previous ones if you can, or find better ones. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Alex" wrote in message news Hello, I have just recently been having this problem. When I boot up my Windows 98 SE computer I am presented with the "Enter Network Password for Microsoft Networking" screen. At this moment my cursor disappears. Even if I use the keyboard to select okay or cancel, the cursor does not reappear. I'd rather boot up without this enter password thing as I haven't entered a password. I tried booting the computer up in Safe Mode and my cursor worked fine. I even tried shutting down all the other stuff except the systemtray in msconfig, and I'm still having this problem. It seemed to start after I tried reinstalling my video card driver. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
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September 3rd 05, 10:52 PM
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On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 15:59:01 -0700, "Alex"
put finger to keyboard and composed: I have just recently been having this problem. When I boot up my Windows 98 SE computer I am presented with the "Enter Network Password for Microsoft Networking" screen. At this moment my cursor disappears. Even if I use the keyboard to select okay or cancel, the cursor does not reappear. I'd rather boot up without this enter password thing as I haven't entered a password. I tried booting the computer up in Safe Mode and my cursor worked fine. I even tried shutting down all the other stuff except the systemtray in msconfig, and I'm still having this problem. It seemed to start after I tried reinstalling my video card driver. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. As others have said, you need to install a different video driver. You can identify the graphics chipset by looking at the card. Otherwise, including those cases where the graphics is integrated into the motherboard, you can watch the POST screen for the info just prior to boot. Or you can query the BIOS using DOS Debug, as follows: http://groups.google.com/group/comp....e=source&hl=en http://groups.google.com/group/comp....e=source&hl=en -- Franc Zabkar Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.
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#7
September 4th 05, 08:41 AM
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Thanks for the help, everybody. Just for clarity I was talking about the
display drivers and not the monitor drivers. I've been installing and reinstalling those. It's a bit tough because I have to do everything with the keyboard. Here's an update on my problem: I've been fiddling with drivers, installing and uninstalling. I have an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX-400 display card. I've had it for a couple of years now and have installed and reinstalled drivers, but never had this problem. This problem started after I came back from being away for a while, a time in which other family members (I imagine this is an old story) had access to my computer. I was uninstalling some programs that had been installed (mostly computer games) when suddenly it went to crummy screen resolution and colors. So I reinstalled the drivers from the CD I had, and that's when this whole problem started. Well, now I've got the latest drivers from the Nvidia website installed and I get more than 16 colors. Now I'm getting this error message at boot up: Rundll32 This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor. Under details I get this: RUNDLL32 caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0187:bff9dfff. That's all for now. Tomorrow I'm going to try trading out video cards and seeing if I have more luck that way. Cheers! -Alex "Franc Zabkar" wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 15:59:01 -0700, "Alex" put finger to keyboard and composed: I have just recently been having this problem. When I boot up my Windows 98 SE computer I am presented with the "Enter Network Password for Microsoft Networking" screen. At this moment my cursor disappears. Even if I use the keyboard to select okay or cancel, the cursor does not reappear. I'd rather boot up without this enter password thing as I haven't entered a password. I tried booting the computer up in Safe Mode and my cursor worked fine. I even tried shutting down all the other stuff except the systemtray in msconfig, and I'm still having this problem. It seemed to start after I tried reinstalling my video card driver. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. As others have said, you need to install a different video driver. You can identify the graphics chipset by looking at the card. Otherwise, including those cases where the graphics is integrated into the motherboard, you can watch the POST screen for the info just prior to boot. Or you can query the BIOS using DOS Debug, as follows: http://groups.google.com/group/comp....e=source&hl=en http://groups.google.com/group/comp....e=source&hl=en -- Franc Zabkar Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.
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