Blank Screen When turn machine on

[Titanrah]

every once in a while when i turn my windows 98 machine on right away it goes to a black screen. I can here the drive running and the operating system booting but no display.I tried replacing the video card but that didnt seem to help any. any thoughts

GR

 

[rfeenie]

do you get anyout put at all when this happens ? next time it occurs press the num lock key if the LED goes on and off then your PC seems to have booted correctly ( i.e. the processor is doing something), if this is the case then you have a video issue, card,card slot or monitor.

If you have no num lock then it could be pointing to a motherboard,PSU or processor issue.


Rob If in doubt get the Ball Pein Hammer out