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BattleToad · March 5th, 2005, 04:45 PM

Its not my machine, I'm looking at it for a coworker of mine so I'm not sure what a "normal" boot routine is for it. She said that one day her machine just stopped displaying information. She tested her monitor on another machine and it worked fine. The machine does the same thing on my monitor (the one that I'm using to type this) so I'm sure that its not a faulty monitor.

Upon boot the monitor just goes to stand by and the num lock key on the keyboard just continually flashes, all fans and drives start operating normally.

I'm thinking bad VGA port on mobo (but I dont know cause when I put an old PCI video card that I had in there and tried running the VGA through there it still woudnt work), but a new mobo for this machine is like $150-200 (not sure why the freaking this is 100FSB with 2 SDRAM DIMMS and like 3 PCI slots, its a really crappy board, guess Compaq just wants to charge people out the wang).

Tried unplugging everything save CPU, CPU Fan, and RAM but had no effect, monitor still went into stand by and keyboard num lock flashed.

March 5th, 2005, 04:45 PM	#7 (permalink)
BattleToad Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Virginia Beach, Va Posts: 603	Its not my machine, I'm looking at it for a coworker of mine so I'm not sure what a "normal" boot routine is for it. She said that one day her machine just stopped displaying information. She tested her monitor on another machine and it worked fine. The machine does the same thing on my monitor (the one that I'm using to type this) so I'm sure that its not a faulty monitor. Upon boot the monitor just goes to stand by and the num lock key on the keyboard just continually flashes, all fans and drives start operating normally. I'm thinking bad VGA port on mobo (but I dont know cause when I put an old PCI video card that I had in there and tried running the VGA through there it still woudnt work), but a new mobo for this machine is like $150-200 (not sure why the freaking this is 100FSB with 2 SDRAM DIMMS and like 3 PCI slots, its a really crappy board, guess Compaq just wants to charge people out the wang). Tried unplugging everything save CPU, CPU Fan, and RAM but had no effect, monitor still went into stand by and keyboard num lock flashed. __________________ "There are only 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can read binary, and those that cannot." Last edited by BattleToad : March 5th, 2005 at 04:54 PM.