re: No Video on Bootup+hard drive+monitor
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 5:36 am
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Posted by oldyankeebarn1390
(1 messages posted)
To all, a week ago I lost the hard drive (crash) and untill yesterday thought I had
virus and malware problems. At the same time I also lost the monitor. Took the
computer in for repair and it was indeed a blown hard drive. Repair place installed
a new hard drive, ran "ghost" and checked for MS updates lacking (only have dial
up at 26k) and checked for any and all infections of any kind. Get computer back
home, hook everything up. No monitor, take computer back to repair place, they recheck
everything and show me visually that computer works and will show a normal monitor
screen. back at home hook everything up, no monitor. That is, it will blink, go
black, hit mouse button, blink, repeat, call repair place, they are very sure that
it is a bad monitor. I have an old monitor, hook it up and am good to go. Buy new
monitor.
Why, or what are the chances that the hard drive and monitor both go bad at same
time, all other electronics in the house are fine. All are protected by high end
surge protectors. In fact the printer is connected to the same surge protecter as
the computer. No other computer problems, ie ram, video, modem etc.
Any thoughts?
On Friday, April 20, 2007 at 7:38 am, Charles wrote:
>Hi Ed, thanks for the reply, but I did ground myself (at least I thought I did).
>If I did in fact do some damage as you said, what would it be that I damaged? The
>power switch light is not going on upon bootup, so do you suspect the power supply.
>If it was a static issue then wouldn't it make sense the memory would have been
what
>I damaged? Do you think it is the video card, since I don't seem to have an input
>signal? What would be my next step, checking the video card and then the power supply?
>How would I determine if they are faulty? Thanks for your reply, and your help is
>most appreciated.
>
>Charles
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