I had a 2003 box that we just installed a new raid card and drives on… And all of a sudden on reboot we had no display. I mean no bios, not post no nothing. I quickly removed the new equipment and was still dumbfounded by the missing display. This was a brand new box but it has an IP address and looks like it is booted up. I did not allow remote connections on it just yet – so I needed to find a remote way in without accessing the machine itself. Of course I had the admin username and password. So here is the quick, easy and painless solution:

1. Run REGEDIT on your XP workstation or on your Windows 2000/2003 Server.
2. Click on File, then choose “Connect Network Registry”.

1. In the Select Computer search box either browse Active Directory to locate the remote server, or type its name or ip in the dialog box. Then Click Ok.

• In the remote machine’s registry browse to the following key:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server
 

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