Screen goes blank when Windows starts

[CiSmAXz]

So here is the story. My friend moved and when he went to conncet his PC he said it wasn't working. He had another friend come over who started making all kinds of BIOS settings to get it to run.

The PC powers on fine, POSTS fine and you can see video. The Windows XP loading screen displays fine, but once it goes to load Windows the signal goes dead. Sounds like a driver issue or bad resolution settings right? Well, I can not get it to boot to safe mode and booting to VGA mode does that same thing as regular - no singal to the monitor.

The monitor is fine I have tried that on another PC. I put a new video card in his PC and it does the same. I reset the BIOS to default and took out the CMOS battery. Still nothing. There is no onboard video card.

The MB is an Asus A7N8X
vide card Gforce fx5200

Any ideas?

 

[corkyg]

Not sure what your problem is. My screen always goes black not long after the Windows load screen appears. But - then it pops up with my desktop. I consider that very normal.

What you don't say, but I am assuming, is that your Windows loading ceases when the screen turns black. How long do you let it wait that way?

 

[CiSmAXz]

Actually I think windows continues to load because the hard drive keeps going. I can then also press the power button and it powers itself down.

 

[corkyg]

Give it a few minutes and see what happens. It may have a lot of housekeeping to do because of program or other changes.

 

[CiSmAXz]

I have given it like 30 minutes and still nothing

 

[deathwalker]

Do a F8 startup...will it boot to windows in the Safe mode? If so...do another F8 startup and select boot in the VGA mode...if it boots to windows ok...reintall your graphics driver.

 

[CiSmAXz]

No it wont boot to either. Safe mode just hangs after loading mup.sys and VGA mode does the same thing as booting regular - the screen goes blank

 

[corkyg]

OK, when going into SAFE mode, do System Restore instead. Go back to when it worked.

 

[deathwalker]

You might have to do a repair reinstall.

 

[inveterate]

vide card Gforce fx5200

shudder, could u believe that thing was 200 bux , dang...

and go with repair install.. HOW EVER, best way is to move hard drive and copy important files onto another comp, then reformat. the pr0n d3m0n likely got to this one