I'm having a big problem with my computer at the moment.
So, one day, I decide to install a utility from a trusted source (EVEMon from the EVE-Online website, if you must know.) Along with this software comes Microsoft's .NET framework 2.0. The installer tells me to restart afterwards. Ok, no problem. So when my computer restarts, I am greeted with a black screen.
The power light is on, the loading light is on - unblinking. Also, at startup, I didn't here the BEEP that you usually associate with starting a computer. So i'm thinking "Well hell." I pop the case open and swap my two harddrives around; I figure it might be a massive corruption on the primary drive. Now the slave is the master and vice versa. Did it work? No, of course not. So I pop the case once again and swap the harddrives back.
Next I try hooking my monitor up to the motherboard's monitor hook-up (as opposed to the plug that is directly connected to the video board), thinking that there might be a problem with my video card. Still nothing - black screen, both lights on. Next I made a last ditch effort and totally unplugged my video card. Now the rig boots up fine but I can't do much at all, since the people who installed the video card before must have disabled the motherboard's montior hook-up.
Assuming this to be true, is there any way to turn it back on by popping the case and fiddling around, or is it a BIOS option? If it is a BIOS option, then I can't access it, as my video card is, apparently, toast.
Vital Specs:
An outdated VIA Technologies motherboard.
P4 2.66 GHz
1GB DDR333
1x 80 GB Harddrive (Master)
1x 180 (?) GB Seagate Harddrive
nVidia GeForce 6600GT 128mb (eVGA, now unplugged)
Any help appreciated by both my parents and myself. They'd rather not dish out $1800 for a new system at the moment.
So, one day, I decide to install a utility from a trusted source (EVEMon from the EVE-Online website, if you must know.) Along with this software comes Microsoft's .NET framework 2.0. The installer tells me to restart afterwards. Ok, no problem. So when my computer restarts, I am greeted with a black screen.
The power light is on, the loading light is on - unblinking. Also, at startup, I didn't here the BEEP that you usually associate with starting a computer. So i'm thinking "Well hell." I pop the case open and swap my two harddrives around; I figure it might be a massive corruption on the primary drive. Now the slave is the master and vice versa. Did it work? No, of course not. So I pop the case once again and swap the harddrives back.
Next I try hooking my monitor up to the motherboard's monitor hook-up (as opposed to the plug that is directly connected to the video board), thinking that there might be a problem with my video card. Still nothing - black screen, both lights on. Next I made a last ditch effort and totally unplugged my video card. Now the rig boots up fine but I can't do much at all, since the people who installed the video card before must have disabled the motherboard's montior hook-up.
Assuming this to be true, is there any way to turn it back on by popping the case and fiddling around, or is it a BIOS option? If it is a BIOS option, then I can't access it, as my video card is, apparently, toast.
Vital Specs:
An outdated VIA Technologies motherboard.
P4 2.66 GHz
1GB DDR333
1x 80 GB Harddrive (Master)
1x 180 (?) GB Seagate Harddrive
nVidia GeForce 6600GT 128mb (eVGA, now unplugged)
Any help appreciated by both my parents and myself. They'd rather not dish out $1800 for a new system at the moment.
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