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So my wife wakes me up at 2:00 in the morning Sunday morning, and says: “Something’s wrong with the computer…”
I go in the Living Room, and the monitor just says: “Self Test”, with the multi-colored boxes flashing around, as if the computer was off, but the monitor was on… The computer, however, is on.
So, after checking all the connections, I see nothing out of place, and am forced to Manually Reboot the system.
It comes up just fine, I log-in, start to check all my settings, and then everything locks up, and I can’t even move the mouse.
I reboot, and go into safe-mode. Log in, open the control panel, and then everything locks up again… I reboot, and the computer seems to boot fine, but now the only thing on my screen is “Self-Test”, and no matter what I do, I can’t get the screen to display anything…
Now I’m getting frustrated…
I power-down, and remove my GeForce, switch the monitor over to my on-board Graphics Adapter, and boot up - “Self-Test”. I check all my cables, jumpers, and switches on my Motherboard, grab an old (but working) monitor, hook it up, and get nothing.
Now I am devistated. Nothing in my machine is more than a year old, the motherboard was purchased about 11 months ago, and everything was in perfect working order the day before. I even unhooked my Hard Drive, and tried to get any kind of beep-codes, but the computer boots as if nothing is wrong no matter what. So here I am, one entire day wasted, where I can’t even check my e-mail, let alone work on any of the dozen or so projects I need to work on… I have no idea what went wrong, according to my Wife, she was just reading an article on Yahoo!, when the screen went to self-test. So I get to browse the forums while I’m at work, and feel sorry for my self, while at the same time being angry, and devastated at the same time. This sucks.
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does the mother board come with a build in video ? is so go to bios and try with that it may be your card is fried and also it may be that the slot you put it in is fried as well .
Join the club buddy. looks at footer Amazing that I wasn’t the one to cripple my own computer.
