Everyone has given very good advice. However, I disagree with the
statement that it could not be the monitor. And anyway, it is such a
simple thing to check, why rule it out? I have had one long beep and
have it be a video card on more than one MPC computers. We have a few
hundred MPC computers where I work and the video card has went bad on
most of them and we have had to switch to the onboard video. A few of
them acted just like Gordan explained, although most did not. So of
course I ruled out the monitor and/or video card because of the long
beep, only to find out it was the video card after all. By the
way....don't buy MPC computers. They went bankrupt and left our
institution with a worthless 5-year warranty on over 1,000 computers.
C ya......Red.
On Nov 9, 9:34 am, Mohammad AbuShady <[email protected]> wrote:
> if it was just the monitor, he would have heard the normal 1 short beep on
> post check, video cards cause a 1 long beep then 2 short ones, and some
> times no beeps at all if the motherboard can't figure whats wrong, if the
> mother board isnt working it also wouldn't have beeped, the only possibility
> i agree might be the cause is the RAM went bad, if you have 2 slots, try
> using each alone, cause 1 faulty RAM could stop the whole system, or try
> using them on another computer, each alone ofcourse.
>
> ~Coalwater~
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Daleeh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Have you plugged the monitor into a working computer to confirm it
> > works properly?
>
> > If it works on another computer, check the video card in your
> > computer. Usually the only way to reliably check video cards is to
> > plug a good one in to see what happens. If you use an onboard video
> > card, plug one in to a PCI or AGP slot. I usually keep a spare basic
> > video card laying around for just such a situation.
>
> > If these things don't work, then maybe you have something wrong on the
> > MOBO--either memory, or another item. To find out, you could unplug
> > all expansion cards (PCI, AGP, PCI-E, memory, etc) then start plugging
> > them back in one at a time (video first, then memory) to see if any
> > are the culprit. If not the MOBO, then the power supply could be bad
> > (even if one voltage rail is bad, things can go sour) so you would
> > need to swap in a good one.
>
> > Unfortunately, there is no way to guarantee electronic circuits will
> > not fail. They are all man-made and subject to random failure. If
> > you've done all you can in the way of protection (surge protectors,
> > clean interiors and heat sinks, proper antivirus protection, etc) then
> > the only thing you can do is accept the fact that electro/mechanical
> > devices will fail and be prepared for it.
>
> > Dale
>
> > On Nov 7, 2:22 pm, gordax <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hello: On normal start-up,I think,push power button on. I get normal
> > > noises ,lights on floopy,cd drives and lock lights on keyboard all
> > > flicker on, fans come on,ect.but monitor display is black,stays
> > > black,except for a momentary mini-screen indicating "no signal",then
> > > goes away back to black screen.By this time my windows screen should
> > > be booting-up and my desktop should be coming up, normal boot,right,
> > > well not this time,not since, 9 days ago. Nothing but black screen,
> > > cannot boot to Dos ,safe mode, no response at all from, mouse,
> > > keyboard, meaning I cant boot to anything. I can hear and feel the
> > > Hard Drive working,hear,see fan on MoBo and pwr.supply working,put cd
> > > in drives and floopy,working- but still black screen. Note: there is a
> > > reacurring single beep , beep coming from MoBo (ABIT KV-85 w/
> > > Athlon64=3000 Proc.) HD is western digital WD600. Is there any way to
> > > find out electrical specs that come off the pwr supply into the Mo Bo
> > > tin order to check my pwr supply for correct specs. Iv changed out the
> > > hard drive ,same. if the MoBO is blown how can i make sure , and what
> > > are the reasons why the board blew w/ all the safe guards,no warning
> > > telling me to shut down before major damage happens . what could i
> > > have done to have made my computer to react with this no response,
> > > black screen situation . Please dont tell me to ok change mobo that
> > > fixes it or put in new pwr supply that fix it. I dont want those kind
> > > of answers, if thats it dont botherwith me. Id like the reasons behind
> > > the theory of why this happened. and prevention of so it wont happen
> > > again. i dont have multiply MoBo,HD Fix money Thanking in advance for
> > > the , i know the proper fix, help i can get. Yours Truly Gordon
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