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No Boot After Modem Install
You must have "VGA text console" selected to boot up with video in the later kernels. This is under "console drivers" in the 2.4.x series. To get the different vga modes Richard :) [1] There is a very very rare possibility that no-one has written their sound drivers for this board correctly. -- Alt.OS.Linux.

Bad power-on behavior on two older Macs
This time, when I powered it up, I did get a video signal and of course the CMOS checksum, battery failure, etc. messaged. I was able to go into setup at this point. After doing a "save and exit", the machine looks like it is going to reset but then both the HDD and power light stay on for a minute or so and then

7500 comes up black no video, no boot
I sure got tired of hearing the boot music. After getting them all, I found that shortly after each boot I got a SVCHOST APP error (I can't even guess what program triggered that) which on the Net (Google) seemed common but no real fix. Had no sound when playing sounds (like WAV/MP3 or video (AVI) but still had the

no video/boot after removing NorthBridge fan from KT3
My SoundblasterPCI128 card failed on me so I fitted an Audigy card All seemed well for a few hours When I switched on my PC the following day it world not POST or boot Cleared the CMOS Removed all but video card Still no boot Replaced video card with no success Removed CMOS battery for 24 hours but still nothing

SE-440BX2 power/startup problems
David anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows server setup I see the bios and then the windows 2003 startup screen and then the video screen goes blank(black. I do I fix? Thanks david.

Abit KG7RAID will not POST or boot after fitting Soundblaster ...
Yesterday the UPS died and on restart there was no video signal whatsoever (amber light on monitor). No POST beeps because no speaker as far as I can tell. While troubleshooting over the phone, on one restart there was normal video but right after "Last known good" option, screen went black.

iMac 450 DV+ won't boot up after "system error".
Chuck cdku...@msn.com microsoft public windows vista general Evidently your system uses different display resolutions as it goes thru the boot and windows startup process. (a common situation) Bios generally uses the lowest resoluton, and windows after the boot process completes, the highest.

Trouble with new display and Device Manager
My motherboard (MV42N) does not recongnize any AGP video card when added to the board. If I turn off the onboard video all I get are error beeps, 2 then 8 then 2 then 1. Then there is no video on the new card nor the onboard video. I have tried different settings for the onboard video memory, changed the speed of

Computer Failure
No video. Drakexconfig had changed the X11 config. Copied the old config back to get the old kernel video working again and now back to x not working in the new one. Now I focus on the nvidia driver. I still have the rpm so I try to rpm -Uvh. Nope. It's already there. I try to install. Nope. It's already there.

Packard Bell won't boot after ram install
Disconnected everything but vid and memory but still my computer just sits there fans going, harddrives going(when connected) but no video, no post and beep After a week my machine started acting odd: on cold boot I would for some reason have to turn my machine on then off then on again to get it to boot into

PII won't boot after BIOS upgrade
Iam working with 2.6.20.3 No video at all, or no graphical display? If you get a text display, you should be able to boot into a non-GUI runlevel and fix things from If you can't boot the old kernel and have no video at all, perhaps you can telnet or ssh into the machine remotely and check things that way.

HELP !! Defrag hang, not machine does not boot at all !!
Joe Selman j...@idlehero.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support I'll make the story short. I'm at a relatives house, and their Windows XP computer is unable to play dvds. I notice that their computer is using the standard 'vgasafe' driver instead of the driver for their tnt2, which is disabled.

No Video After Compilation?!
After windows 98 was up and running OK I shut down and installed the new AGP card, once again making sure it was all the way down, and booted. I get no beeps, only the sound of the fan coming on and what sounds like the HD but no boot. If I boot with no video card these sounds are the same. PLEASE help!

Appreciate any help in restoring C:
No video display , no POST, no Floppy drive LED light, cannot turn computer off by front power button. Must turn off by power switch located back of computer. I've read that access to floppy occurs after POST on boot up. Additional info: -AHA2940 bios was disabled because I do not have a scsi hard drive as per

Very odd problem, for savy pc owners only
I change the battery, no luck....still no video Sorry. Well, as I said, there was always a chance. Did you also try resetting the PMU button? http://www.peachpit.com/features/0700sadmacs/sadmacsPram6.html http://www.macgurus.com/beta/mbppcimacdv.html You might try asking about this on comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc

Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org
... the hard drive start clicking (after which it stopped completely), but I heard no startup chime or any other chime for that matter. And there was no video. Black screen only. I went through the normal troubleshooting, ie, cables, power supply, power outlets, PRAM battery (which I replaced two months ago),

No video after startup
OK,,here's a good one;;;;; After a clean XP install I added a PCI modem (friends Computer). Now Sys will not boot. No Beeps-Nothing (CPU fan, sys fan, front lights all come on). No Video except for a momentary green light on the monitor. I take the Modem out,,and system boots fine. Modem installs fine in another

no video and will not boot
My computer when first turned on, will refuse to boot; no video, and both the IDE and SCSI HD indicator LED's are lit, but no actual disk activity is apparent. After a reset, the spinning ATI logo comes up, and the system continues on to boot without a problem. As long as the power stays on, all seems to be fine;

1 long beep, 3 short, no video/can't complete boot
Here's a short history: Spring 2001: 9600 suddenly stops working after years of faithful operation. No startup chimes, no video; drives still spin up, but that's it. Summer 2001: After sitting idle, we gave it to a tech savvy friend to fix as a long term project. Fall 2001: No luck. Ready to throw the thing out.

Replacing bad caps
Chris Osborn fozzt...@pez.fullsystem.com alt comp periphs mainboard tyan I just acquired an S1563, and for some reason after I shut it off, it won't boot up. The power light and a green LED on the motherboard near the processors turns on, and the keyboard lights flash, but that's all it does. No beep, no video on.