System Restore Points in XP and Boot Camp

I did a dumb thing on the WinXP side of my Mac: I turned off VGA in the Control Panels. Why it's possible to TURN OFF YOUR MONITOR SIGNAL is a little beyond me, but there it is. I have no monitor now, so I can't correct the problem.

When booting into Safe Boot mode, it is impossible to pick a System Restore point, because USB support is disabled at that point. I would need a serial port keyboard and that's certainly not an option.

Sooo . . . my options as I see them are: reinstall WinXP (last choice) or get someone clever to help me. I would think there is some system file I could tweak from the OS X side that would let me set the VGA back to "on." or to somehow reset the System Point from the Mac side.

Any help wold be appreciated.

TJ

 

You are suggesting a Safe Boot, which isn't going to work in this case. The Windows side thinks the current configuration is the "last good configuration," at least I assume it does since choosing this option gets me the same black screen. I could try picking a restore point, but as I mentioned above the USB bus is inactive once you get past that "bunch of text" screen.

 

Sorry about the wrong terms. Windows is a foreign land of strange customs. My original problem stands, though. Hitting F8 (what I was erroneously calling "Safe Boot" gets me to the screen where I can choose "last known settings". Unfortunately the last known working setting does not have video support, and I get a blank screen. I guess Windows considers it working.

I am looking for a way to fix the issue without booting into windows. Since the Mac side can see all the windows files, including system files, I am hoping for a way to manually reconfigure a file to the proper setting. It may not even be possible.