re: Aptiva comes on but nothing on monitor!
Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 11:44 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Anne
(22 messages posted)
Thanks...........there are six beeps but I do not have the book about bios. Would
you know what they mean and if so could you tell me.Thank you
Anne
On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 10:59 am, Steverz wrote:
>Shutting down your computer when it is going to be idle for many hours or days is
>fine, so that will not bother the battery. Here is what I suggest you do:... 1.
>Check the monitor cable to make certain it is connected properly.....2. Check your
>monitor settings to see if anything comes up.....3. When you Boot/Start, are there
>any beeps beyond one beep? If so, check your Motherboard booklet to see what the
>BIOS beeps relate to since that will tell you where the problem lies.... 4. If there
>are beeps, then your Video Card, CPU or Motherboard could be bad.... 5. If no beeps,
>no DLED's on the back of the case with red and green colors, and nothing on the
monitor,
>then either your CPU or Motherboard are defective. Replacing the CPU first makes
>more since than having to gut the machine to replace the Motherboard and all of
its
>components, providing either of the two are the root of the problem.
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