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Black screen when starting
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Sometime starting PC screen continue black; monitor LED yellow - OFF, pressing RESTART button = the same; using system floppy = the same, changing video card = the same. After disconnecting PC, cleaning BIOS (pins 1-2, 2-3, 1-2) and/or disconnecting and replacing memory chips screen will working but another day ones again off. Some day after pressing a lot of times RESTART working again but not ever. PC details: Own build year 2000 OS Windows 98 SE Generic Athlon motherboard Processor AMD MMX Athlon 600MHz (3x200) Chipset 750-Irongate Memory 2x 128MB SDRAM Video card ATI Rage 128 Expert, ATI All In Wonder 128 Sound card SoundBlaster AWE 64 Gold Monitor Gateway EV500 (With other OS the same problem) |
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The problem is probably with the monitor. It could have a
faulty power or VGA cable. Also, but I doubt it, could be your power saving features. Win98 supports ACPI, and this allows the PC to send the monitor into standby mode (no picture, yellow LED). Also, when the VGA cable comes loose or is damaged, the monitor won't get a signal, and will go into power saving mode automatically (ie no pic, yellow LED). If the cable IS broken, you COULD repair it yourself (which is what I did) but unless you find soldering 15 little wires to a new cable fun, you're much better off upgrading to a newer and better (bigger) monitor. |
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