No graphics and no boot problem

Charlie-Bravo

Have been asked to have a look at a computer...

When you switch the computer on it fires up but there's no beep for the boot up sequence and the monitor (all connected fine) doesn't go green on the power light. If you have the vga cable plugged in the monitor it stays in stand-by mode. Take the vga cable out the monitor looks for the video signal.

Now, I opened the computer up to investiagte and detached the graphics card. I then powered up the computer without the graphics card. It started up and beeped...it wasn't a double beep and sounded like a normal boot up.

I got a second graphics card and plugged it in the computer....same problem - no life out of it and monitor stays off.

Does any have any idea of what is happening? Would it be the motherboard with PCIe socket problem?

Any help is appreciated!

Anti

First thing to do is to reset the cmos. You can do this by either resetting the jumper, or remove the small 1€ sized flat battery for a few mins and replacing it. While your at it reset the ram too and make sure all the cable are securely in. Plug them out and back in to be safe.

Lazarus2.0

Possibly just the driver for the gfx card doesnt load until Windows loads - have you tried connecting to onboard video card (if present) or waiting a minute or so until Windows loads - I got a machine here that will display POST through onboard port but is then disabled when the gfx card driver loads . Sounds similar ..

Charlie-Bravo

Anti,

I did as you said, removed the jumper, removed the battery, removed the RAM...then put them all back after about a minute!

So one of the above actions worked! Firstly, thanks for the prompt post, secondly, thanks for the comments that worked!

Astrofluff

Anti

Glad it worked