On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sounds a bit like a syncing problem between chips on the mainboard and
something on the videocard. Something to do with heat, changing specs.
I suspect a faulty chip on the videocard.
Paul
>I apologise for an off-topic post but I need some help please and I know that
>a lot of you are experts in the hardware field.
>A colleague asked me to look at her PC (P75, 24mb) which, when powered up
>appeared to give no output to the monitor, a change of monitors had made no
>difference.
>I powered it up and it the monitor remained blank. Suspecting the graphics
>card (PCI) I swapped it for an old ISA card to see what happened and
>re-booted. POST completed with a checksum error message, (no sign of a CMOS
>button battery) I pressed F1 and continued, Windows (I know !) booted after
>running scandisk and programs loaded succesfully. Just to see what happened I
>put the original PCI card back in and re-booted, no problems. Thinking that
>it was perhaps just dirt on contacts and that the problem was solved I left
>it running for 30 mins or so, went back to it and it had hung - no response
>from mouse or keyboard, powered down and re-booted and was back to square 1
>- monitor power light came on for a few seconds, then a black screen. Swapped
>the cards again but nothing changed. No error messages, either text or beeps
>to give me a clue.
>Has anybody got any ideas please ?
>BTW both fans are working, very little dust present.
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