No BIOS Screen on Start-up

[Spinicus]

I know this probably isn't a specifically XP problem, but I was running at the time that this problem began.

When I tried to wake my PC from sleeping (monitor off, hard disks off), it wouldn't wake. After hitting several mouse buttons and keyboard keys, I manually shut-it down and restarted it. Upon restarting, the monitor continued to sleep and the hard disk made it's initial boot sound, but made no sounds like it was trying to initialize the BIOS or WinXP.

So I'm stuck with a PC that has power going to it, but seemingly no boot sequence. I tried the monitor on a different PC and it worked fine, so I don't think that's the problem. I was thinking it might be the video card, or maybe the BIOS has gone schizo on me...

What do you guys and gals think?

 

[linney]

Have you got the latest bios update for your computer?

You could try and see if the XP cd will load and boot up. If it did you could re install XP over itself.

Have a look at this site (it refers to ME) but it might give you some other ideas to try.

http://members.aol.com/axcel216/newtip15.htm

 

[boobaloo]

I had identical problems on IBM machines w/ Matrox video cards (it happened on 5 of the 7 systems). The batch of video cards were bad, which after the initial HD activity, the systems seamed dead. In the meantime, I was able to remove the AGP video card and plug the monitor to the motherboard video. Then I was able to get into the bios and change video requirements. Try swapping the video card