monitor turns off during startup

[smelph]

so I intalled mint last night and was loving it. this morning, however, i restarted the system and now I can't get mint to start up. i get through the grub, select the OS i want, it loads some stuff in terminal, then the monitor shuts off and the system freezes up.

i tried booting into the livecd, but it does the same thing.

windows xp starts fine from grub, but all the mint selections lock up. can anyone point me towards things to try to get back into mint?

here's some info on the system:
dual boot:windows xp/mint 4.0
dell e172fp monitor
nvidia geforce fx 5600 graphics card-was using driver from envy
just installed ms money 2004 in WINE prior to problem

[smelph]

ok, managed to boot into the livecd, so at least that's working still not sure where to start looking for problems but at least i can access my file system now

[linuxviolin]

I wonder if your problem does not come driver installed with Envy...

Have you tried to remove it and go with 'nv' or 'vesa'?

[smelph]

ok i figured out what the problem was (man was that a hassle!)

apparently while working on configuring my mouse (about the same time I was working with imwheel), I had changed the identity of the mouse from "Configured Mouse" to "Mouse0". apparently there is soemthing in the X server that was looking for "Configured Mouse" and all it was seeing was the other one and so it was deciding to stop everything.

anyway, I'm back into Mint and glad I dont' have to reinstall again (that was the only idea I had earlier today!)