i'm freaking out!!
Ace
use my computer , so i turned it on and left the room to let windows boot
up. i came back in the room and noticed my monitor was blank (black screen).
it had only been about 5min. since i had left the room and the monitor is
set to go on low-power after 45min. i figured that maybe i had been gone
longer than i imagined, so i tried moving the mouse around to turn it on.
nothing i did seemed to work, so i hit the reset button. while the computer
was booting up, i heard loud, long beeps. i was pretty freaked out at this
point, so i turned the computer off without counting how many beeps i heard.
i immediately unplugged everything and let it rest for about 20min. after
20min i powered up the computer and everything worked just fine. i was very
relieved at this point and decided to run scandisk and defrag just for the
hell of it. scandisk found no errors and defrag completed successfully, so i
turned my computer off. i couldn't understand why this had happened because
before my friend came over, i was using my computer without a single
problem.
about 45min. after my friend had left, i decided to go online and post my
problem. i turned on my computer and, to my amazement, heard those long,
loud beeps again. i decided to count them this time, figuring they would
give me a clue as to what the problem might be. after counting 20 beeps!! i
couldn't take it any longer and turned the damn thing off. i took it into my
work area and took the cover off to have a look inside. i plugged the
computer into a VERY old dell monitor to see if the monitor would have the
same problems but it didn't, the computer booted up just fine. i re-seated
the graphics card and dusted out the case. i then plugged my usual monitor
into the system and booted up expecting to be greeted with the awful beeping
noise again, but no, this time it worked!! i have successfully booted up 4
or 5 times now with the monitor and haven't had any problems so far (knock
on wood)
you are probably wondering why i'm so worried if everything seems to be
working okay now, but i just can't accept the fact that all it took to
correct my problem was reseating the card and dusting the case. i have a
feeling there is more to it than that. does anybody have any suggestions
what might be wrong here? i just can't sleep at night wondering if the next
time i turn on my computer i could have the same problems.
I built this computer myself about 2 months and all parts were brand new
when i bought them. here are the system specs:
-17inch viewsonic A75s monitor
-M64 TNT2 32MB video card
-128 MEG PC100 SDRAM
-Abit BX6-Rev2.0 MB
-Antec 250WATT ps and case
-Celeron 400MHz (not overclocked)
-Running Windows 98 (first edition)
...ummm i think that is all you need to know. if you need any other
information, let me know.
thank you soooo much in advance for suggestions,
matt
he...@i.am
book i have and that is what it listed. but i also have seen video do
this too.
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 02:30:18 -0500, "Ace" <ECruf...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
Jörg Klein
could be almost anything: As said before, it might be the power supply.
But to give you an example, what possible causes have to be taken into
concieration: I had a running system, changed the old moitor for a new
one and the trouble started: random lockups or resets and lockups with
certain video-apps, changed back to old monitor: no problem. exchanged
the grafik card, put in an old one: no problem with both monitors. Aha -
defekt grafik card! Replaced it: problems were still there with new
monitor. To make it short: it turned out that DDC-pin (Direct Data
Channel) of the VGA cable was bend and touching ground. Since neither
old grafik cards nor old monitors use this pin the problem only occured
with the combination of the new devices and than only if an application
used the DDC. Took 6 weeks to find out.
What I'm trying to say: your problem can have almost any cause: power
supply, mobo shorted, overheated grafik-chip, wrong Bios-settings
(latency, AGP-divider, etc.), loose cable and so on. You need to find
out exactly, under what circumstances this error occures. Than you might
be able to get more specific help.
Jörg
ComputerDoc
Sometimes a stuck (dirt, coffee, coke, etc) key, a couple of blown fuses
on the mother board (older MB's), etc. Be sure that your keyboard is
solid before you go chasing a "monitor" problem that doesn't exist - and
I doubt it is the monitor.
In article <84s7g8$lps$1...@bob.news.rcn.net>, ECruf...@hotmail.com
says...
--
root@localhost
postmaster@localhost
admin@localhost
abuse@localhost
postm...@127.0.0.1
Michael
had begun to work its way out of the slot. Continuous long beeps usually
means bad or badly seated CPU, RAM or video card. By re-seating the video
card, you probably fixed the problem.
Ace <ECruf...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:84s7g8$lps$1...@bob.news.rcn.net...
> a very strange thing happened tonight. a friend of mine came over today to
> use my computer , so i turned it on and left the room to let windows boot
> up. i came back in the room and noticed my monitor was blank (black
screen).
[snip]
Rohar
design is at fault. If reseating the AGP card firmly has fixed the problem,
that's probably your culprit. I used to build over 50 systems a day for a
commercial computer manufacturer, and when AGP first came out, it drove us
nuts. We'd get the systems up and running, and drive them to our client's
location in the van, and when they got there, half of them would have
constant beeps and no video until we opened the case and reseated the video
cards! Intel was definitely not thinking about idiot-resistance when they
designed the AGP slot.
syrynx
"Rohar" <nob...@home.com> wrote in message
news:#M8$MwIW$GA.170@cpmsnbbsa03...
...or transit vibrations, or normal thermal expansion/contraction...
I'm really glad you posted this message; it confirms my personal experience
(on a much smaller sample). :-)
Rohar
someone else's life. :)