It's kind of a mess and a mystery isn't it? No, I didn't change any settings for the monitor in the bios.
I actually discovered (after I already lost visual on the monitor) that the jumper settings on the drive were wrong--but my computer had been working for three years with it like that. I went ahead and jumpered the drive on the end of the cable as primary, and the other one secondary. Since it apparently wasn't a hardware problem, I assumed it probably was a setting 'somewhere'. What else could it be? Who knows what I did. I can get a little zealous sometimes. :) I probably should be a little more afraid. I know just enough to be dangerous. :D I'm crossing my fingers because this evening Zone Alarm seems to be behaving itself and there are still no messenger popups. ZA says it has blocked 240 inbound attempts. I'm getting on the Internet okay, and getting mail. I've downloaded other programs and been able to install them. I'm only using the free version. Tomorrow my son is going to install $20 rear brakes on my Ford Explorer--saving me the $169 to have them installed. I paid a $100 to get my computer back, so I figure I'm still ahead by $69. ;) Is that blonde logic? :D Diane --- In [email protected], "JIM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, I figured it might really be the bios since it was booting up > > (with a monitor screen) until I changed the bios setting of which > > drive was primary and which was secondary. It didn't like that one bit > > (the devil made me do it). :D It started to finish booting after > > that, then just went black. > > But changiug which drives were primary and secondary would not cause the > screen to go blank. What it might do is produce an error message that it > could not find an OS on the drive. > > You also need to know the difference between primary and secondary drive > chains and master and secondary drives on those chains. If you jumper the > drive incorrectly of course that will keep the master from booting. > Sometimes the bios can 'figure things out' enven when the jumpers are wrong. > But a bios; ability to do that may depend on the bios manufacturer. A singe > drive can often boot no matter what the jumpers are set for, but when you > have two drives on a chain, that muddles things up and I think that the bios > may be foreced to accept the jumper settings, so if the deives with the OS > on it is jumpered as slave and vice versa It hink that the machine will fail > to boot. > > But that should not cause a black screen. Did you ever chance monitor > settings in your bios? > > I still think that your repair person gave you a story, but of coure I could > be wrong, I don't have enough information to be certain. > > Jim > > > Never got a monitor picture after that. > > Before that, it was working fine when I left the shop with it. I did > > stand there and watch him check it out the first time. > > > > They didn't charge me for any parts (like a new video card). The $100 > > was strictly labor. That was the minimum, and I guess I'm just glad > > they got it working again. ;) I don't have to take it in often. In > > fact this is the first time in....well, heck, this was the first time. > > I usually manage to fix it myself with the help of people like you > > guys in this group. Thanks!! > > > > Diane > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "JIM" <jpurcell@> wrote: > >> > >> Diane, > >> > >> > Yea, but they said the problem was a setting in the bios. So if > > that > >> > wrong setting was preventing a picture on the monitor, how did > > they > >> > fix it without being able to see the monitor? > >> > >> They used their own monitor. Most video cards today will just adapt > > to > >> whatever monitor is connected. I seriously doubt that the problem > > with a > >> bios setting, of course I can't be certain. I don't think I would > > leave my > >> computer with a repair person, I'd want to see him work on it so > > that I can > >> be certain that he is telling me the truth about what he finds. > >> > >> I had a problem with my Netgear wireless network. I called Netgear > > and they > >> woman I talked to was Asian. I could only understand one word in > > five... > >> except for OK. She insisted that I needed to give her the seriel > > number on > >> the unit. The print was so small that I couldn't read it, 8 and B > > looke > >> alike. I finally gave up and called Geek Squad. They couldn't come > > out for a > >> week. So I called a local company, they came out the next day and > > fixed the > >> problem within an hour. If I need help again I will call them. 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