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Hardware Compatibility List

Safe Mode is one administrative tool for recovering from video problems. If Windows can start in a limited capacity with the default drivers you can investigate the settings in the Control Panel. 

 

Most folk’s first experience with the Blue Screen of Death comes from bad video drivers. A Blue Screen is a Stop Error—meaning that the entire system crashes. The keyboard and mouse are dead. There is a blue screen filled with the system dump. Bad video drivers can render a computer totally useless.

 

Microsoft developed the Hardware Compatibility List to identify hardware that plays nice with their operating system. All of the devices and equipment on the HCL have been independently tested to insure that they will be stable.

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hardware compatibility list