Recent content by Sgent

So I am a volunteer for a small non-profit (social club), and although not a network engineer, I a somewhat advanced home user (SSL VPN's, QOS, etc., on my home network. Here's my initial thoughts, but I am probably missing something. |-Primary WAN |-Backup WAN ...>VLAN POS (wired clients...

Thanks for the suggestions. I don't turn on "silent" boot for just this reason -- so I can see the post or other codes. Once I hooked up my laptop to the monitor and had the same problem -- and realized I couldn't get the monitor's on screen display to work. I then hooked up my computer to...

Just wanted to post a final update.... it wasn't the motherboard, but rather the monitor. When I moved my laptop downstairs and plugged it in... the same problem occurred -- which resolved upon delivery of a new monitor.

I am... Just found the invoice. I've now got to see how long it will take... Thanks for the assist!!!

Ok... So I yanked out a small power supply I had in a htpc... 270w but that should have been enough to post. Same thing happened so I'm thinking motherboard.

Hmm... Thanks for the reminder to reseat everything. I unplugged everything but 1 stick, the mboard, CPU, and keyboard and it seemed to make a very slight difference--the splash screen turned off and then the first few lines of text in the boot sequence flashed before dying.

I'm a bit lost on this one and could use some help in diagnosing the problem. I was playing an older game on a system stable for over a year and the screen turned black. The computer continued to run at least briefly. Since then the monitor will show the bios splash screen when powered on, then...