I'm trying to diagnose this over the phone for my brother and out of ideas.
His computer is a hand me down from me. It's been working fine for the most part, up till yesterday. Yesterday morning he turned the system on, heard the windows xp start up chime. When he went to use it the monitor was blank. He double checked the connects, which were fine. It has on board video so I had him switch to that, and it was the same. I overnight'ed him an old APG card I know works (at least before shipping). He put that in and same deal, Windows starts but no video. It occurred to me that it might be that one of his kids set the contrast, or brightness to a crazy setting. He's ruled that out. The card I sent him had a vga and dvi output. So I had him connect the computer to his LCD tv with the DVI. The DVI also just shows a black screen.
Pulling the video and attempting to boot without video card results in a video error beep code.
The thing I don't understand is neither the monitor or TV says no input detected, it seems to be getting a signal but the signal is black or empty.
Any Ideas?
Quick Specs on System:
P4 2.0Ghz
Intel MB
1GB DDR333 Ram
ATI Radion 9200 AGP Videocard
325 Watt Antec PS
WD 5200RPM 80GB HD
Windows XP Pro SP2
His computer is a hand me down from me. It's been working fine for the most part, up till yesterday. Yesterday morning he turned the system on, heard the windows xp start up chime. When he went to use it the monitor was blank. He double checked the connects, which were fine. It has on board video so I had him switch to that, and it was the same. I overnight'ed him an old APG card I know works (at least before shipping). He put that in and same deal, Windows starts but no video. It occurred to me that it might be that one of his kids set the contrast, or brightness to a crazy setting. He's ruled that out. The card I sent him had a vga and dvi output. So I had him connect the computer to his LCD tv with the DVI. The DVI also just shows a black screen.
Pulling the video and attempting to boot without video card results in a video error beep code.
The thing I don't understand is neither the monitor or TV says no input detected, it seems to be getting a signal but the signal is black or empty.
Any Ideas?
Quick Specs on System:
P4 2.0Ghz
Intel MB
1GB DDR333 Ram
ATI Radion 9200 AGP Videocard
325 Watt Antec PS
WD 5200RPM 80GB HD
Windows XP Pro SP2