Vista - Video Driver failed to initialize [Home 32bit]

I think this is the right section. I did some searching but didn't find anything to help me.

My PC was working fine yesterday morning. I then went to work and came back, turned it on and it doesn't boot. It gets to the vista loading bar then goes black and restarts. It comes up with the startup repair but that cannot fix it. I can't boot in any mode at all. When I've disabled restarting when there is a crash I get to a blue screen which says :

"The video driver failed to initialize

STOP: 0x000000B4 (0x8747F008, 0x87009000, 0x86EDE00, 0x00000000)"

Ive tried running many tests but none of them find a solution. I even tried running a Live CD of Ubuntu so that I could actually boot up but that also fails. I can't think of much else to do. I can restore it back to factory settings but I will lose all my files.

PC Specs
2GB RAM
ATI 1300/1550 series

Any solutions?
If you need anymore information just ask.

Thanks in advance, Mattie.

Same problem/error message.

Vista repair CD failed to help & gave up.

PC itself is still ok - am using it to type this, but in SUSE Linux from one of my additional partitions. My two existing Windows partitions are visible and intact. Thus this seems to be a Vista only software or file corruption issue.

Since drive is accessible, I can, at least, pull off any files... but the "reload from scratch" aspect is painful of course.... Am hoping to fix the actual problem instead.

Any helpers? thanks folks!

There's not really much info available on this and what there is isn't all that promising.

This is about Windows Home Server but the symptoms fit. It may give you something to go on.

Video Driver Failed to Initialize : Windows Home Server Software : Windows Home Server : Microsoft Forums

The first thing I would try to do is take the Video Card out, clean it and install it back again... hopefully, is not an onboard

That links seems to be a good one as well.

In my case, no - that's not it.... the hardware was/is working fine - it was Vista that was broken!! I dual boot my pc and was fully able to use it from SUSE Linux. Also - its a laptop so "pulling" any non-PCMIA card is not generally possible! In any case, being unable to find/fix the specific problem, I simply reloaded the Vista partition with a clone I had thankfully made - by dual booting and then using the LINUX tool ntfsclone! Thanks to the LINUX world for again saving my Windows stuff - lol