So my sister was using her boyfriend's PC, and the monitor suddenly went blank.

They hooked up a friend's monitor, turned on the PC, and was able to get to the Windows Me ( ) login screen, then the monitor went blank again (PC was still running). Subsequent attempts didn't even get the login screen.

So the boyfriend bought a new video card (a pci 5200 if it matters), and the same thing happened: first try got to the login screen before the monitor went blank, second try got nothing.

The PC always runs when started, and the HD light is always active.

The monitor is apparently clicking quite a bit, so I asked them if they had messed with the resolution prior to the problem, but they said no.

Any ideas?

7/29/2007 3:21:30 PM

does the same thing happen in safe mode?

7/29/2007 3:24:55 PM

Apparently they can't get into safe mode, because nothing will post

Yeah... this was the part that baffled me.

[Edited on July 29, 2007 at 3:28 PM. Reason : .]

7/29/2007 3:26:32 PM

I would try throwing in a live cd and see if they can boot from that.

7/29/2007 3:37:33 PM

By live CD do you mean recovery disk?

Tried that, nothing posted.

7/29/2007 3:41:11 PM

If you changed the boot order and all that and it still didnt post. I would guess its something wrong with the motherboard but again it could be some other hardware in the computer.

7/29/2007 3:59:26 PM