On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 18:27 -0800, Paul McCool wrote: > OK, Folks, here's my dilemna. My wife's computer has been out of > commission since Thanksgiving, due to the sudden onset of a condition > where the monitor receives no input from the PC. I just installed a > brand new video card, making sure to follow the instructions as to > grounding myself, disconnecting the power, etc., but the new video > card doesn't work any better than the one I removed, so now I'm pretty > well certain I've misdiagnosed this problem. > > Anyone out there have any suggestions about how to fix this?? > > Paul M. > > Paul..first up is the computer POSTing ? Do you get the initial POST beep when she fires up ? If not then the problem is more serious, and could be something like a failed optical drive which can stop the Power On Self Test that is the first step in bringing Mr PC to life. This needs to be confirmed one way or the other before any more diagnostic stuff can be proceeded with. Also occasionally a flat BIOS battery on the motherboard will stop the POST but this only happens rarely and is more to do with the motherboard brand/model than anything, some it matters and some it doesn't. If it's POSTing but still no output then you need to check that the vid card is seated properly. Also reseat the RAM chips. At this point all you can do is unhook everything from the motherboard and see if it fires then hook one thing up at a time to try and find out what is stopping the startup Other than these couple of things you might have to get it to a workshop where they have maybe a POST test card which would tell just what the POST problem is and can also point toward which piece of hardware has failed. Could be Mrs Motherboard has shed her mortal coil or Mr Hard Drive has crapped out.
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