vid card help / advice

**iLLusioN** · 12-23-12, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by moving-target

i dunno one thought i had might be taking it to geek squad or something but those guys charge like 45$ an hour least most tech people do would the limit it to just 1 hour and figure it out i ponder

You are better of taking it to a local shop. Geek squad usually just defaults to formatting if the first couple things they try don't fix it. I used to work in a small computers shop and I'd bet half our customers were coming in from geek squad because they didn't want to format...90% of the time we were able to avoid that.

To test the ram...download this and burn it to a cd. Restart windows and boot from that cd...it will start testing the ram....you usually know if it's bad within 15 minutes...but the test will take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending on how much ram you have.

**moving-target** · 12-23-12, 01:52 PM

but thats the problem it doesnt boot pc will power on and just stay blank

**iLLusioN** · 12-23-12, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by moving-target

but thats the problem it doesnt boot pc will power on and just stay blank

Do you have a monitor that you can plug into the vga port to see if it's the vid card or the monitor?

**moving-target** · 12-23-12, 01:56 PM

monitors fine i plugged it into this old dell and i figure even without the vid card it would still boot windows but not display ? i've had this problem a couple times in the past and fixed it by turning the power on and off till it works but now that no longer works

**DJ Ms. White** · 12-23-12, 01:59 PM

What boot code is your mobo displaying?

**iLLusioN** · 12-23-12, 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by moving-target

monitors fine i plugged it into this old dell and i figure even without the vid card it would still boot windows but not display ? i've had this problem a couple times in the past and fixed it by turning the power on and off till it works but now that no longer works

Sorry, I thought I read earlier that you had blown out the laptop, not that you were getting air to do it today...I would do that first still. But as far as the monitor goes, some laptops swap automatically...some don't. the function button plus the Fkey with a monitor symbol(usually F5) should force it to use your VGA port.

**moving-target** · 12-23-12, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by DJ Mr. White

What boot code is your mobo displaying?

thats the problem there is 0 picture not even a boot menu

**moving-target** · 12-23-12, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by iLLusioN

Sorry, I thought I read earlier that you had blown out the laptop, not that you were getting air to do it today...I would do that first still. But as far as the monitor goes, some laptops swap automatically...some don't. the function button plus the Fkey with a monitor symbol(usually F5) should force it to use your VGA port.

nah not a laptop i just been borrowing one to post but i dug up this old dell its the least its good for till i can narrow down a problem

my pc turns on fans spin mothr board light lights up but screen stays blank nothing to display