Claymore
Rear Admiral
My graphics card is no longer sending video to my Sony monitor. One day I turned on my machine and all I got was a black screen. The monitor would wake back up for a couple of seconds (the light would go from amber to green) and then say power save mode and go back to amber. After that my surge protector didnt even have enough power to turn on the on light on my speakers. And yes the "protected" light on the protector was still on.
I plugged everything directly into the wall. And still got the black screen. I'm thinking my graphics card shorted out. And I'm also worried that my harddrive isn't spinning up. I tried unplugging all the drives to reduce power requirements and still got that black screen. What's the course of action? Should I just buy a new card or what?
Here's my slightly dated machine:
Win Xp
AMD Athlon Xp 2800 (about 1.8 ghz)
2 Gigs of ram
Maxtor 120 gig harddrive
ATI Radeon X700 (AGP) 256 Mb
Antec 500 watt PSU
Afterthought: I have an old 350 watt psu back in storage (in a different town) I'll try putting that in and seeing if windows will start up.
Thanks in advance for any help
I plugged everything directly into the wall. And still got the black screen. I'm thinking my graphics card shorted out. And I'm also worried that my harddrive isn't spinning up. I tried unplugging all the drives to reduce power requirements and still got that black screen. What's the course of action? Should I just buy a new card or what?
Here's my slightly dated machine:
Win Xp
AMD Athlon Xp 2800 (about 1.8 ghz)
2 Gigs of ram
Maxtor 120 gig harddrive
ATI Radeon X700 (AGP) 256 Mb
Antec 500 watt PSU
Afterthought: I have an old 350 watt psu back in storage (in a different town) I'll try putting that in and seeing if windows will start up.
Thanks in advance for any help