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I turned my computer on this morning...

eldorado99

eldorado99

Lifer
I turned on my computer this morning and nothing appears on the screen. I tried connecting it to a different monitor but the same thing happens, tried a different video card, same thing. What gives? It worked just fine last night. This is really frustrating.
 
Yes the hard drives were spinning and fans were turning, I can't really tell if its POSTing or not if I had to guess I would say yes it is.
 
Please give full pc specs, model, revision if known.

I would...

1. Rip all card out except video
2. reseat video to confirm
3. reset the bios via battery reset - in case of bad settings

Unless you have another PSU to try out, we can't tell if the mobo is getting power or not
 
Athlon 2500+ OCed to 3200+
A7N8X-E Deluxe Nforce 2 Ultra
Radeon 9700 PRO
Antec Trupower 330W
WD 80G 8MB cache IDE
1024MB DDR 400
LG 52x32x52 CDRW
LG 52x CDROM
Floppy
Hauppauge WinTV Tuner
 
Originally posted by: forcesho
Please give full pc specs, model, revision if known.

I would...

1. Rip all card out except video
2. reseat video to confirm
3. reset the bios via battery reset - in case of bad settings

Unless you have another PSU to try out, we can't tell if the mobo is getting power or not
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Tried all three things, same result, monitor just says "video cable connected?" which it is of course and nothing happens, and upon further inspection, its not passing POST
 
/me sets up a tombstone and a grave for the video card


Did you try on-board if you have it? or a different video card?
Any beeping from the speaker on the PC?
 
Kinda sounds like what happened to me... except my video card works in another machine and another video cards works in this machine... lol
 
check the connector going to the video card.. the one that powers the gpu. make sure you have good voltage there. if you do, then try to clean the teeth on the agp connectors. if that doesnt do it, then i can tell ya what i tried. I had a junk psu once, and a radeon 9500 that i thought died on me. I decided to plug in the other psu and hot plug the connector. It worked then. Weird, but it worked. So i just rma'd the card and got a new one.
 
this is strange-THE SAME EXACT PROBLEM I HAVE BEEN HAVING!!! Xatrix also has it. The computer gets to the windows slider, then a black screen, then the monitor goes into powersave mode, right? I RMAed my card and RAM since both were having problems.
 
No actually my problem is that nothing EVER appears, I cant even see the ram check screen where it asks you if you want to go into the bios. I just turn on my computer and monitor, and bam nothing appears. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: eldorado99
Is it possibly my mobo dying?
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I would try a different power supply that is compatible if I were you. an incompatible type will sometime work and sometime not.
the fan on your PS maybe spinning but that is not an indication that it is working. it is not giving power to your mobo when you power up, a dead fuse is a possibility as well.
like I said, dont assume it's the mobo just because you think so. check eveyrthing else first... including cpu
 
Can you see the system specs showing up on startup? If not try resetting the bios, I see your computer is overclocked and might be over heating. If that's not the problem sounds like your power supply died on you. So you cant see anything on your monitor at all? Maybe your vga connector is bad, or maybe even your monitor died. I had a problem with my monitor and it wasnt displaying at all, thank god for warranty.
 
I moved my PC...unhooked everything and the same thing happened. I connected the monitor to the MB video connector, it worked. My ATI video card would not.
I kept taking the ATI vid card in, and out...and I finnaly got a good "seat"

good luck
 
Is it possibly my mobo dying?
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Yes very possible since it happened to me,I tried different PSU, CPU,video card etc and finally changed the motherboard(then it worked) so in my case it was a dead board,like the others have suggested you`ve to start ruling out parts of your hardware like PSU,video card etc first(trial and error),also try resetting the BIOS and try booting out of the case with minimal hardware,check all connections as well.

 
Originally posted by: nycxandy
It's the power supply I bet.
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why has everyone been saying this recently? power supply seems to have become something to blame for everything that goes wrong
 
Yeah, I ruled out the power supply, the video card, the cpu, the optical drives, floppy drive, do I need to bother ruling out the hard drive? So I guess my mobo needs a replacement. 🙁
 
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