$chlitz
11-19-2008, 12:04 PM
First off, lets explain the system: it's my older machine, but has been a solid worker for many years. ECS K7S5A board, AthlonXP 2400+, 1gig RAM, Sparkle 350w power supply, 3 various hard drives, VisionTek HD Radeon2400pro AGP card, running XP SP3.
System has been running great for some time now...no problems to report. Two days ago I noticed it was not going into stand-by mode, so silly me I manually put it into Hibernate mode. Never used Hibernate on this machine before. Next day I went to power up the machine and it would power up but no video output...monitor stays in stand-by mode. Finally after much cursing and checking all the obvious things (card seated, cable connected, etc), I put old Rage7500 card in and it woke up. Seemed to run OK...tried Readeon2400 card again and nothing. This card is only 3mos old, mind you. Went back to the Rage7500, back in business. I don't play games, but I run Music Software...running FruityLoops Studio for about an hour or so and bang--video goes dead. Computer seems to still be running fine, well as far as I can tell...no beeps, didn't shut down...just lost the video. Swapped the cards again and nothing. Now neither card wants to work. Short of buying ANOTHER video card, can someone give me some steps to take in troubleshooting the problem? I would appreciate it...
PS--it's rather hard to troubleshoot the system when I can't even get the display to come on...
System has been running great for some time now...no problems to report. Two days ago I noticed it was not going into stand-by mode, so silly me I manually put it into Hibernate mode. Never used Hibernate on this machine before. Next day I went to power up the machine and it would power up but no video output...monitor stays in stand-by mode. Finally after much cursing and checking all the obvious things (card seated, cable connected, etc), I put old Rage7500 card in and it woke up. Seemed to run OK...tried Readeon2400 card again and nothing. This card is only 3mos old, mind you. Went back to the Rage7500, back in business. I don't play games, but I run Music Software...running FruityLoops Studio for about an hour or so and bang--video goes dead. Computer seems to still be running fine, well as far as I can tell...no beeps, didn't shut down...just lost the video. Swapped the cards again and nothing. Now neither card wants to work. Short of buying ANOTHER video card, can someone give me some steps to take in troubleshooting the problem? I would appreciate it...
PS--it's rather hard to troubleshoot the system when I can't even get the display to come on...