1. DDz Quorum Sid Posted September 28, 2009 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 Had an issue yesterday where the computer booted but didn't show anything on the monitor. It beeped a few times before settling down and after a few minutes I got very choppy and crappy graphics at a resolution that definately was not mine. I assumed it was the Nvidia 8800GTX graphics card that I had installed in the build nearly 2 years ago. I did a swap with the reconditioned 8800GTX I bought a few months back and it booted up fine although the system is slower in boot up by about 10 seconds. I'm glad I got the spare when I did and I can live with the extra boot up time. All considered it was a smooth rescue but took me out of Pedestal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2. Administrators Jabo Posted September 28, 2009 2. Administrators Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 Ouch, not fun m8, but it sounds like your supplier is doing the biz for you. Try completely uninstalling the gfx drivers and then reinstalling to see if that improves your boot time. No guarantees, but it might help. Jabo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1. DDz Quorum Sid Posted September 29, 2009 Author 1. DDz Quorum Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 No can do...... Won't boot up at all now. Goes through the bios screens etc. then I get a very quick blue screen with words on (too quick to see) before it goes into reboot. I did the F8 and have got into the boot sequence and got it to boot from the XP disc and have tried both repair and reinstallation. Last time I tried it didn't recognise the hard drive and when I press enter to get the repair to go on all I get is the black flickery screen with the flashing cursor up in top left hand corner.... Duff hard drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 Hi Sid, have you a Linux distro CD/DVD? Its very a handy tool to test you hardware. Download and burn Ubuntu onto a CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DD_Brando Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 I think I'd get in touch with pcspecialist to see what they have to say. Did you buy the whole rig from them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perfesser Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 If there is no video card installed or it's broken don't you have to have "enable VGA" checked in the bios to see anything? Or is that out of date info these days? I seem to recall having that problem a long time ago. Might be worth having a look anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gec Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 if u have no vga u would not see the bios in the first place. idea with linux live cd is very good. even better if u can find "Ultimate boot cd". it is a windows xp system that runs entirely from cd. i have one but mus find a way to upload it somewhere somehow. boot in one of those two cd-s and check everything UBCD even have tools like antivirus, hdd checking tools, memory checking tools, backup and so on. problem is that there is a lot of UBCD distributions but not all are good. i'll try to find good dl link or upload mine. but generally linux live cd is a good start. at least to check the vga. u can try this one: http://www.slax.org/get_slax.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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