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lelliott731
[H]ard DCOTM April 2017
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Hey guys, below is the specs on my system:
Shuttle XPC SN45G (nForce 2 400 Ultra) Motherboard
AMD AthlonXP 2500+ (512k L2 Cache, 333MHz FSB) Processor
512MB PC2700 (2x256MB Samsung CL2.5) Memory
40GB Western Digital ATA100 Hard Drive
16/32/24/10 DVD/CD/CDR/CDRW Samsung Optical Drive
3.5" Samsung Floppy Drive
All In Wonder 7500 AGP 4x/2x Graphics Card
Creative Labs v.92 56k PCI Modem
Here's my issue, for some odd reason the card was working just fine. I upgraded the drivers to Catalyst 4.8 and when I restarted, the BIOS startup screen shows up, then the initial Windows XP startup screen appears, where the blue boxes move across the bottom of the screen, and then the video card stops displaying anything to the monitor, it's like it shuts off the DVI display port. The LCD gets no input what so ever. Then I tried to reboot the machine and go into the BIOS, well once again, the BIOS startup screen appears, tests the memory, and then when I hit the delete key, the screen goes blank, it doesn't turn off, but nothing is shown. I tried to upgrade the BIOS, by putting in a DOS boot disk with the new BIOS on it, and it reads the disk, boots into DOS, but once again, doesn't display anything on the screen. Once, a while ago, I was able to boot into Safe Mode, and I uninstalled the driver, and was able to get back into Windows, where I was able to upgrade a lot of the software, and then I upgraded to Service Pack 2, restarted, and I got past the initial Windows XP Startup screen that I talked about above, and this blue screen came up that had some white text on it that just said "Please Wait..." and a few more dots showed up after the initial ones, while the hard drive churned, then it rebooted, and that was it, it shut off the monitor again when it got past the initial Windows XP Startup Screen. I am really lost; any help would be greatly appreciated. I am going to go out and buy another graphics card to see if it's the card, or if it's the motherboard, or something else. Thanks for reading all this, if you have any questions just post them and I'll do my best to answer then, I really am confused about this one.
Shuttle XPC SN45G (nForce 2 400 Ultra) Motherboard
AMD AthlonXP 2500+ (512k L2 Cache, 333MHz FSB) Processor
512MB PC2700 (2x256MB Samsung CL2.5) Memory
40GB Western Digital ATA100 Hard Drive
16/32/24/10 DVD/CD/CDR/CDRW Samsung Optical Drive
3.5" Samsung Floppy Drive
All In Wonder 7500 AGP 4x/2x Graphics Card
Creative Labs v.92 56k PCI Modem
Here's my issue, for some odd reason the card was working just fine. I upgraded the drivers to Catalyst 4.8 and when I restarted, the BIOS startup screen shows up, then the initial Windows XP startup screen appears, where the blue boxes move across the bottom of the screen, and then the video card stops displaying anything to the monitor, it's like it shuts off the DVI display port. The LCD gets no input what so ever. Then I tried to reboot the machine and go into the BIOS, well once again, the BIOS startup screen appears, tests the memory, and then when I hit the delete key, the screen goes blank, it doesn't turn off, but nothing is shown. I tried to upgrade the BIOS, by putting in a DOS boot disk with the new BIOS on it, and it reads the disk, boots into DOS, but once again, doesn't display anything on the screen. Once, a while ago, I was able to boot into Safe Mode, and I uninstalled the driver, and was able to get back into Windows, where I was able to upgrade a lot of the software, and then I upgraded to Service Pack 2, restarted, and I got past the initial Windows XP Startup screen that I talked about above, and this blue screen came up that had some white text on it that just said "Please Wait..." and a few more dots showed up after the initial ones, while the hard drive churned, then it rebooted, and that was it, it shut off the monitor again when it got past the initial Windows XP Startup Screen. I am really lost; any help would be greatly appreciated. I am going to go out and buy another graphics card to see if it's the card, or if it's the motherboard, or something else. Thanks for reading all this, if you have any questions just post them and I'll do my best to answer then, I really am confused about this one.