# Dead Computer **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [February 2, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dead-computer/100794 "2004-02-02T15:58:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SeiferTim](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/seifertim/32/188_2.png) [@SeiferTim](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SeiferTim)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dead-computer/100794/1 "2004-02-02T15:58:48Z")
[rant] 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. [/rant] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dead-computer/100794/2 "2004-02-18T18:29:33Z")
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 . ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dead-computer/100794/3 "2004-02-20T03:56:01Z")
Join the club buddy. _looks at footer_ Amazing that I wasn’t the one to cripple my own computer.