> So considering that the laptop itself still boots, I'm wondering if
> someone knows of anything (or can help me devise something) along the
> lines of an automatic bootable CD that will load and autoflash the
> video card with the proper bios (also held on the CD). I've had one
> abortive attempt at this myself, as I really have no idea where to
> begin.
If there it a utility to flash it from linux, you could hook a
terminal up to the serial port and have full access.
Usually there is a boot floppy for flashing, so I'd try to reflash it
blind. Either hope the manual is enough or boot on another machine
and see what it looks like, or find someone with the same laptop to
make proper instructions.
You could make a silent VNC msi, install it on the machine, and I'd
assume that would give you a regular desktop. If you can't manage to
do an install (drop the file in your startup folder over the share?)
get a windows live CD (bartpe?) with vnc on it. Or maybe RDP would
work? If you haven't turned it on already, learn how to turn it on
blind :-)
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