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Thread ID: 99000	2009-04-16 00:34:00	Boots Up but nothing to monitor	bazmeister (3216)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
765361	2009-04-16 00:34:00	My son has rung me for help. He is running XP on a 4 year old AMD system. After shifting the set-up to another room, he now finds nothing coming onto the monitor after booting up. He has tried the monitor on another system and there's nothing wrong with it. Apparently the system is booting up, presumably sounds and lights etc but that's it. There will be nothing fancy in the video card dept., just the generic el cheepo that comes with the system. Anything I can suggest he tries diagnostically.?	bazmeister (3216)
765362	2009-04-16 00:42:00	Could be the same prob as this (pressf1.co.nz) May also be a flat CMOS battery. Try replacing it	Speedy Gonzales (78)
765363	2009-04-16 00:44:00	does this happen as soon as he powers the computer on? eg does he get the POST status etc? try booting in safe mode	williamF (115)
765364	2009-04-16 01:06:00	Does it beep? Is it integrated GFX or a seperate AGP/PCIE card?	Blam (54)
765365	2009-04-16 01:38:00	Thanks for the help .. has given me something to start with. Cheers.	bazmeister (3216)
765366	2009-04-16 01:40:00	I had something similar; I changed the main cable, to try one of the main spare ones I have, but monitor would not display the usual load up. Though hard drive was still loading. In the end I found the boot priority had swapped to the floppy drive - don't know why/how. So changed it to the hard drive to boot...	kahawai chaser (3545)
765367	2009-04-16 11:09:00	You haven't plugged the monitor into the integrated video socket instead of the video card socket, have you? (though you should get some output, in possibly low res); have a look to see that the video card hasnt come loose/fallen out of its slot on the motherboard (or anything else) after the move.	feersumendjinn (64)
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