Hello,

The other day when i went to shut down my computer, i acidently hit restart, and i was so tired, i could not be bothered to wait for it to boot up again, so i just held the power button ( ive done this before and had no problems).

But the next day, when i went to start up my puter, i hit the power button on the tower, but nothing displayed on the monitor. I tested the monitor by hooking it up to my laptop, and everything appeared to work fine. So i checked my tower for connections, cleaned the graphics card, checked all cables and cards were pushed in, but it had no luck.

I presummed that it was my graphics card which had broke, so i brought a new one ( use to have a geforce 2), now i got a ati radeon 9200. But im still not getting any picture.

Any suggestions on what the problem is and i can fix it?

Thanks in advance.

-Prowler

Does your computer boot up? Do you hear any beeps or does it do the memory check?

What you could do is disconnect all power from the computer, remove the power cable that goes to the case, wait a bit and then put 'em back and power on. I have had something similar happen to me where it almost feels like something shorted because it wouldn't come back on until I unplugged the power.

Computer *Seems* to boot up. Lights turn on, fans role, harddrive spins. No beeps - but i never got beeps. Memory checks? i cant check without monitor.

Will try what u suggested. and get back to you in a few mins!

No luck Waited 10 seconds after pulling both power cables out but it still didnt work! thx though!

I think the beeps that div is talking about are the BIOS error beeps when there is something so seriously wrong that your computer can't display video. The different number of beeps indicate different problems. If you don't have any memory installed, cpu installed, wrong jumper settings etc.

The only time I have encountered this problem is when I have set something up wrong and then I always get the beeps. Then you can consult your motherboard manual to interpret what is failing. I think these beeps have to come out of your case speaker. Do you know if it is properly hooked up?

no idea if i got the case speakers set up correctly. Sometimes when the comps crashed though, ive had large beps from it, so i think it is...

Sounds like it is hooked up.

I know that it is hard to tell without video, but the bootup of your system ussually has a pattern. Does it seem to you that it is completing this pattern? Does your computer check for floppies, cd-rom drives. Is your computer set up to boot from a floppy or CD-rom drive? If so, when you install one does it read off of it like it should?

Is your card AGP? if so, do you have a pci card you could throw in a pci slot to see if that works?