[dba-Tech] If it ain't broke...

Hi Jon
Do I  understand correctly that everything is running normaly, except
that you dont see a thing on your screen and the power safe of the
screen is activated?

How do you know everything is running, can you access your computer from
another computer?
Did you replaced the graphic board or have put it into another slot?
Best is to put all AGP/PCI cards in the same slot as they where.
But it can be to late now.

It looks like your screenresolution or refresh rate has changed to a
setting your monitor does not support. Typicaly a problem with flat
screen.
This is easy to solve by booting into safe mode (press F8 at OS boot)
and setting the resolution and refresh rate to one you know your monitor
supports.

Has this grahic board more then 1 output (tv our or second screen). 
If second monitor or tv attached, check if those are not working....

If your pc appaers not to be working (next to the monitor) than you
probably have a driver issue, could happen if you did not installed the
PCI cards in the same slot as before.
Remove all pci cards boot in safe mode.
Reboot and install the pci cards one by one (install, boot, check if ok,
etc...)

If this does not help, remove all PCI cards, USB equipment and remove
all drivers manualy in the device manager while in safe mode.
You gonna need to install all devices and drivers again....

Hoop this gets you back on the road.

Erwin






-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:30 AM
To: Dba-Tech (E-mail)
Subject: [dba-Tech] If it ain't broke...

I'm sure you've all heard the saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix
it"... I don't know why I didn't pay heed to that last night, but in the
interests of upgrading my pc, I thought I'd ignore it.

I bought myself a new case, smaller than my old one (so I can open the
desk drawer directly above it), and with better ventilation. I swapped
all the drives over, and the motherboard, and plugged everything in.
Then I turned it on, all the lights came one briefly, then it turned
off. So I tried it again, before it struck me that this new case had a
bigger power supply than my old one, as it is a Pentium 4 case, not a
Pentium 3. So I swapped the power supplies over and tried again. At
first it didn't work, but I realised that the power leads were not
plugged in correctly, so I did some fiddling, and made it all work. I
booted up again, the BIOS saw all my drives and proceeded to load
Windows 2000. It went through the black screen with the white progress
bar at the bottom, then onto the white screen with the windows logo and
blue progress bar in the middle. Then the monitor usually flickers
before the blue screen appears and I can log on, but the screen goes
black, and my monitor powers down with everything running... I don't
know where to go from here, as I've never heard of this before.

Does anyone have any ideas?

I'm completely stumped. I could understand it not working at all, or
working completely, I just don't get why it would work partially, then
stop...


Jon


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