Hello, I have a pentium II system that will power on. (I can see the power light is a bright green.) However, once the power comes on the computer will not 1.) output video and 2.) will not make any error 'beeps' to show that there are any errors with the computer. Any help or suggestions that you may have that would solve this issue would very much be appreciated. Thanks in advance

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On Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 11:22 pm, Chris wrote:

>Hello,

>I have a pentium II system that will power on.  (I can see the power light is a 
bright 

>green.)  However, once the power comes on the computer will not 1.) output video 

>and 2.) will not make any error 'beeps' to show that there are any errors with the 

>computer.

>

>Any help or suggestions that you may have that would solve this issue would very 

>much be appreciated.

>

>Thanks in advance 

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On Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 11:22 pm, Chris wrote:
>Hello,
>I have a pentium II system

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I had the same problem u are experiencing. I would power ON the PC. The keyboard light would come on; the hard drive LED would light; the sound of the power supply as well as the hum of the CPU fan could be heard but nothing would show on the monitor. I would check the video cable and the monitor power supply cable to see if they were firmly inserted in their socket. Yes, they were and still no pictures on the CRT. What I did was to swap video card inside my PC with another one borrowed from a friend and bingo ! the monitor became alive. After two beeps confirming end of POST, a setup window, a Windows 2000 GUI, the desktop displayed. To cut the story short, there was nothing wrong with the monitor, floppy drive, hard drive nor the P3 CPU. It was the video card which was defective. Tinker with the video card. If you have an old PC, try swapping. If not borrow or buy yourself a new one and put it in---I am sure it will solve yr problems. Affordable Forsa GeForcce 512 MB DDR2 PCI Express video cards can be purchased for $40 at: http:///www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=VCD. It could be a video controller. To find out visit the Device Manager via Settings>Control Panel>Systems> Device Manager (Win 9x)/Hardware (Win 2000 and higher)>Device Manager>Video Controller. If there is something wrong with the video controller/card,a yellow question mark will show. Double-click the device after the yellow question mark and follow the instructions.

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