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re: Aptiva comes on but nothing on monitor! Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 10:59 am Posted by Steverz (216 messages posted) 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. On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 10:09 am, Anne wrote: >Machine operates as always but there is no picture on monitor. Could it be the battery? >Computer has been used primarily by kids for games and learning and has always been >shut down after use which is why I think it might be the battery. Hope I'm right! > will look for opinion. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Aptiva comes on but nothing on monitor! Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 11:44 am 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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Aptiva comes on but nothing on monitor! Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 11:54 am Posted by trey (27 messages posted) Beep Codes.........but you need to know the manufacturer, Phoenix, Award, etc. On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 11:44 am, Anne wrote: >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 > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Aptiva comes on but nothing on monitor! Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 11:58 am Posted by Gerry Kroll (1986 messages posted) Six beeps mean that the display is sick. I suspect your monitor has just up and died on you. You can get a secon dopinion on the monitor by plugging it into a friend's system. On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 11:44 am, Anne wrote: >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 > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Aptiva comes on but nothing on monitor! Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 12:49 pm Posted by Anne (22 messages posted) Thanks but I have checked the monitor and it is okay. Maybe the connection inside the housing........or something? On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 11:58 am, Gerry Kroll wrote: >Six beeps mean that the display is sick. I suspect your monitor has just up and >died on you. You can get a secon dopinion on the monitor by plugging it into a friend's >system. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Aptiva comes on but nothing on monitor! Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 1:15 pm Posted by Anne (22 messages posted) It is difficult to count the beeps....I thought there were six but after turning the computer on again I discover there are only five......sorry about that! Do you have any ideas? On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 12:49 pm, Anne wrote: >Thanks but I have checked the monitor and it is okay. Maybe the connection inside >the housing........or something? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Aptiva comes on but nothing on monitor! Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 3:46 pm Posted by Gerry Kroll (1986 messages posted) What makes you say the monitor is OK? "green light on" doesn't mean it's OK. Try the monitor on another computer. If it produces a display, that's a good sign. The monitor could still be bad, even if it seems to work OK on the other computer. It might have lost the ability to display at the refresh rate your computer is set for. If the monitor won't even display the IBM logo at power on, it's definitely sick. On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 12:49 pm, Anne wrote: >Thanks but I have checked the monitor and it is okay. Maybe the connection inside >the housing........or something? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum