NO VIDEO AT BOOT UP

[JEAN-CLAUDE RAINEY]

ALRIGHT FELLAS. I DO NOT GET ANY VIDEO ON MY MONITOR WHEN I TURN ON MY COMUPTER. IT'S NOT THE MONITOR. I TRIED THAT ON SERVERAL OTHER COMPUTERS AND IT WOKRED FINE. I REPLACED THE VIDEO CARD. STILL, NO VIDEO ON MY MONITOR. I EVEN CHANGED MONITORS. STILL, NO VIDEO. PLEASE HELP. I'M LOST N WHERE TO GO FROM HERE, OTHER THAN REPLACING THE MOTHERBOARD.

THANK YOU,
RAINEY

[IndianaWoody]

Is this a system you have worked with before, and are just now having troubles or is it a new system? I had the same problem when I started building my new system, would turn it on but nothing would show on my monitor. I pulled my chip out and put it back in and this solved my problem, turns out I didnt have it seated just right in the slot.

[Paleo Pete]

A better description would help. Do you get any beeps of any kind? Do you hear the fans come on? Or see them, if the case is open? Do the LED's on front of the case come on?

Need to know these things before we can do much with your problem.

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[Daniel J Matthews]

are you useing a pci graphic card or agp card?

because some times thier are bios settings that will allow you to boot of a pci card or agp card as standard

[rUzz]

If the problem is not in your CMOS you need to check with your manufacturer about a new bios chip. If that doesn't work it has to be on down the chain. Somewhere in your mothers milk(board).
I suggest reseting your CMOS before you do anything else.

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[mjc]

This may seem silly but, did it have on board video and then you added a video card? If so, is the cable hooked up to video card or the on board video? Try switching them around if this is the case because one or the other may be disabled in BIOS. Then enable the one you want and switch back.

Is it a Compaq? If so call them I know several people who had similar problems with Compaqs and the motherboard was the culprit.

[April S.]

:eek: Please help! I am so very confussed!

I pulled my daughters desktop PC out of storage, where it has been since last September. I was going to turn it on and clean it up. I turned it on, and you could hear it boot up but I had no video - I could not even see the bios on the screen. Totally black! I tried different video cards, AGP and PCI but nothing helped.

This is a system I built several years back and has been a very good system. It has:
Gigabyte motherboard - GA-7VA-C
256MD 2700 DDR memory
NVidia GeForce 3 Ti 200 AGP card
WD WD0400BB 40 GB hard drive.

Pleae help me solve this issue. I am totally baffaled and do not know where to go from here. I have even replaced the Bios battery just in case.

I need your help so I can fix this system and give to my other daughter. She starts college later this month and need a system at home.

Please and Thank you,
April

[mjc]

Good grief, calm down! Necroposting to 8 year old threads and starting more aren't going to get you any more or any faster help.

[123456]

I've always wondered how newcomers find such ancient posts...

[jerkto]

April S.,

A friendly suggestion is to buy your daughter (who's going to college) a new laptop if she's going to move away. Or a new desktop if she's going to be living at home. That system is a little too old for even yesterday's standards...

If you do have to use that one, and do get it fixed somehow, make sure to upgrade the amount of ram on it to at least 512 mb. A good place to find compatible ram is by using crucial's auto scan tool:
http://www.crucial.com/
(http://www.crucial.com/)
It will also tell you the maximum amount of ram your system will utilize.