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pmakinen
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Windows 7 Guest Fails to Start in Workstation Player 15.5

I have a Windows 7 guest that was happily running in Player 15.5 under Windows 8.1 build 9600, but ever since I fixed my dual-monitor configuration in Windows 8 so that the 2nd monitor works and the resolution behaves correctly on the 1st monitor, the Windows 7 guest has crashed with a Blue Screen of Death (the crash screen says Windows 7 was loading the ndis.sys driver at the time of the crash).

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Maybe I simply need to reinstall Player to take into account the new monitor drivers?

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pmakinen
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I finally successfully navigated through the system-crash menus and was able to boot to safe-mode-without-network. Device Manager informed me that one of the numerous vmWare network drivers listed had failed to load, so I've deleted that, and maybe now it will work. 

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pmakinen
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No joy.  Onward to Last Known Good configuration boot.

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