| indianresident16:14 UTC19 Mar 2007 | My display conked.
On some troubleshooting, discovered that the monitor is not to blame.
The graphics card is also not to blame.
So most likely its the motherboard, but how to be sure?
It used to happen earlier too and on stopping and restarting 5-10 times, the display would come up.
Yesterday i tried some 50 times and nothing happened.
Its a relatively new machine. AMD athlon XP, 512 RAM.
Any ideas?
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| lan18:37 UTC19 Mar 2007 | something that often happens, particularly with older AGP cards is that they slowly work their way out of the socket - so often the first port of call is to reseat it.
another candidate is the vga cable itself - they tend to get waggled around, and are fairly fragile.
best option, just use a process of elimination - try each bit on a different machine.
do you get any beep codes or anything useful like that?
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| indianresident20:12 UTC19 Mar 2007 | nopes. no beep.
but let me try changing the cable. i missed that.
thanks
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| indianresident20:15 UTC19 Mar 2007 | hey wait.
actually i did.
i tried it on a different monitor and that too did not work.
cannot be AGP, as i did do the reseting and also removd it and used the on board port.
so its not that.
guess its time to get deeper into the motherboard.
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| lan21:04 UTC19 Mar 2007 | Resetting the BIOS to factory settings may help, particularly if it's been overclocked.
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| zoltan02:54 UTC24 Mar 2007 | IR,
Have you tried your graphics card & monitor on another computer ? Sorry if this sounds basic, but you haven't specifically confirmed this. That would then rule out these components as being at fault.
Just read your post @ #3 - the onboard doesn't work... has the on-board been turned off in the BIOS ?
Cheers
Zoltan
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