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TMgo wrote:
> 2nd REPLY - or follow up on earlier reply....
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> I tried to see if I could resolve this problem by switching the video card,
> I tried two PCI video cards and another AGP video card.... for a total of
> three different video cards - NO LUCK. Now I am back to where I was before
> the last problem - there is no response when I turn on the power on the PC
> to start the boot process. I hear the disk drive spinning, I see a light on
> the PC power light .... but nothing on the monitor!!!
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>
> Any suggestions as to what I can do, or what could be causing this?
Can't tell without knowing anything about what hardware you're talking
about. What motherboard, memory, display cards? What else is in it?
Did it ever work? How long? What changed before it started doing this?
> Regards,
>
> Ted M
> "TMgo" <tedm@starstream.net> wrote in message
> news:411945a1$1_4@corp.newsgroups.com...
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>>Thanks - this lines up with a problem that I have been having with that
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> PC.
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>>Before this round of problems, I would turn on the PC and there would be
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> no
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>>response - no booting up, no beep sound .... I changed the video display
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> to
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>>get the system to even reboot - now it just keeps rebooting again and
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> again
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>>as soon as it completes Starting up Windows.
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>>The sound I hear when the PC seems to restart the boot process again -
>>actually is not a 'swish' sound it is more the sound that you would get
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> from
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>>an electrical device such as a small fan being switched off (more of a
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> TSsss
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>>sound where the first TS is louder and then the sound drops in volume)
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>>Thanks again,
>>
>>Ted M
>>"David Maynard" <dNOTmayn@ev1.net> wrote in message
>>news:10hig832sf3msd3@corp.supernews.com...
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>>>TMgo wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>My PC running Windows 2000 starts to boot up and then when it has
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>>completed
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>>>>the last step "Starting Windows 2000" and I expect it to go into the
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>>step
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>>>>where it shows the desktop and the applications - I hear a sound that
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>>sounds
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>>>>like a switch turning off (a swish sound) and the PC re-starts the
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> whole
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>>>>boot process.
>>>>
>>>>Could this be caused by a BIOS problem or a power supply problem ????
>>>
>>>Possibly but that symptom is often caused by a display card/driver
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> problem
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>>>that causes a crash as the system is trying to start the desktop.
>>>
>>>See if it boots into safe mode, check your system logs for error
>>>notifications, and try reinstalling the display driver.
>>>
>>>
>>>>I have tried a number of things and have not been able to fix this -
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>>Help.
>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>Ted M
>>>>
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