monitor not starting - no display - nothing????

[sunandoghosh]

monitor not starting - no display - nothing????


Hi people,

I am stuck with a probelm...

Here is how the problem goes...

I have two PCs (not connected) at home both on windows xp...

My PC ONE has Celeron 500 with motherboard mercury
My PC TWO has Pentium four 3.2ghz

Now yesterday...

when i put on power of my pc no one then although it seemed it was booting and could recognise keyboard there was no display on monitor...

I took out the wires from the back of CPU one and again connected ...this time the monitor was working ok...

i shut down and later in evening when i again started pc no one it was not displaying anything on monitor

Now i tried to connect pc two cpu to pc no one monitor and then there was proper display on monitor...

then i again connected pc no one cpu to monitor of pc no two and nothing came on monitor...

FROM the above it appears that there is some problem not in monitor of pc no one but in CPU of pc no one...

but how do i know what is the problem in CPU of pc no one???????????????????????????????????

i have cleaned it of dust and also tried to do everything again ...........plz help.......

any suggestions, comments would be more than welcome....

thanks in advance

regards,

sunando

sunandoghosh (at) rediffmail (dot) com

 

[montag451]

Check the vid card is plugged in properly.

Take it out, plug it in. FIRMLY but not toooooo firmly

Check that the cables are in good condition [swap them around and see if you can replicate the problem - wiggle them]

 

[montag451]

Oh yeah,

when you say the computer seemed like it was booting, how do you know? Did it boot into windows - did you hear that annoying startup jingle that it plays by default?

Did you hear any other beeps when you switched on your computer?
Is the CASE SPEAKER plugged in?

 

[sunandoghosh]

did you hear that annoying startup jingle that it plays by default?

yes i could hear all the familiar beeps and even keyboard is getting detected??????

the vga card seems attached to motherboard (cannot take out)?????????