Cpl Ledanek Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 less than a week after I bought a new monitor and I must have done something with either the screensaver or turning off monitor when not used, coz after turning off my CPU and turning it back on this morning, all I see if the Asus flash screen, heard the voice of system rebooting , then DOS set up, the XP loading screen, then nothing afterwards. then I get a signal from monitor saying its turning off in 5 secs...now its in the shop. and maybe 1 week of no GR for me my spec XP PRO 2.2Athlon 512DDR PC 2700 80GB HD ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRW_Hotdog Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 you must have set it beyond its frequency range... i did that once messing around and finally had to enter in safe mode to correct it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Ranger Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 You got a spare display for testing purposes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted September 23, 2003 Author Share Posted September 23, 2003 I tried my older monitor, and same thing happened...saw up to the XP loading status screen, then blank.... should I be at least happy its not the blue screen of death? anyhoo, my pc in the shop...any further suggestion would be appreciated folks.... thanks for the rescue guys will post any updates...just in case this happens to someone else... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Ranger Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 I'd be interested in knowing the results. My guess is either the video adapter frequency setting is too high, echoing what Hotdog mentioned, or possibly your VGA output on the video card took a dump. Is your video card a dual-output model? (VGA-Out for CRT, and Digital-Out for LCD) Coulda tried the DVI to VGA adapter for kicks - ah well. Let us know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted September 24, 2003 Author Share Posted September 24, 2003 PC shop gave me a hint on what happened, but their going to do a 24hr burn in-like to make sure what happened. It may have to do with me fiddling with increasing graphics settings, or forgot to turn on my Nort AntiVirus, while leaving my WinXP PC LAN connected to my Win98SE which my has its AntiVirus on but was still connected to the net. Conclusion tom.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted September 25, 2003 Author Share Posted September 25, 2003 Official Result: Virus/Worm got into my WinXP PC (AntiVirus was off) thru a physical LAN connection with my Win98SE (Antivirus was on). PC Shop, said, not certain which one infected, me. Coz they can only go thru Safe Mode, they were able to get a message indicating the C drive was corrupted. So. Reformatting HD, and start fresh. Maybe, NOW, I can do a proper Rescue Disk. Hmm...should I do a Recovery Disk on DVD? Great excuse for a new DVD Burner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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