I have an HP Pavillion a6000 desktop, which, of course, has an onboard graphics card. 18 months ago, I put in an EVGA geforce 9500 video card and put in a TOPOWER TOP-550PCM 550W ATX / BTX Power Supply, which, since I'm not hugely computer savvy, my roommate (who I no longer live with) installed.
Two days ago, my computer gave me a blue screen, restarted itself, then froze on the start-up. When I hard reset it, nothing came up on the monitor. I figured that my video card died, but I still felt it was strange that NOTHING came up on the monitor, not even a start up screen. I bought a new video card, installed it into the pci slot, and plugged in the monitor - same problem: nothing (and I mean nothing) came up.
I took the the new video card out, and plugged the monitor into the onboard video card - still nothing. I took the battery out to clear the CMOS and restore factory BIOS settings - still nothing. I don't really know where to go from here.
When I start up the computer, all fans are running and I don't get any sort of beep code. Because there is power going to the fans, I don't think it can be a power supply issue, can it? When I had the new video card in, the fan was running, but obviously it wasn't getting picture to the monitor.
I'm pretty much out of ideas. I would really appreciated some help on this. Note: everything on the computer is stock, the exceptions of the power supply and graphics card.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
Two days ago, my computer gave me a blue screen, restarted itself, then froze on the start-up. When I hard reset it, nothing came up on the monitor. I figured that my video card died, but I still felt it was strange that NOTHING came up on the monitor, not even a start up screen. I bought a new video card, installed it into the pci slot, and plugged in the monitor - same problem: nothing (and I mean nothing) came up.
I took the the new video card out, and plugged the monitor into the onboard video card - still nothing. I took the battery out to clear the CMOS and restore factory BIOS settings - still nothing. I don't really know where to go from here.
When I start up the computer, all fans are running and I don't get any sort of beep code. Because there is power going to the fans, I don't think it can be a power supply issue, can it? When I had the new video card in, the fan was running, but obviously it wasn't getting picture to the monitor.
I'm pretty much out of ideas. I would really appreciated some help on this. Note: everything on the computer is stock, the exceptions of the power supply and graphics card.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
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