Greetings Board,

My self sufficiency has finally reached its limits!! Time to join the interdependent forum here to get some help. Thanks in advance!!

I push the power button. Screen has no video input. I hear no beeps. Fans are running. I was having trouble with display drivers in XP with nvidia before this happened. I tried to reinstall many times. MB has no on board graphics and using a g5200 video card.

I have RESEATED ram and video card, cleared cmos UMPTEEN times by removing battery and attempting to us jumper. Still no video.

I have tried to go into bios blind by using the del key f8 key to set defaults and then return to reboot. still no success.

Any clues what to do next. I have tried two monitors with same results.

cables all look good and have cleaned the mb.

Clueless

SammeeePower down.
Hook the monitor up to the onboard video jack.
Boot up and travel to Device Manager ...find the vid card ...right click it and select uninstall.
If you recieve a warning ignore it.
Now go to Add/Remove programs...uninstall any video software that came with the card.
Power down.
Re-boot.
Re-install the drivers for the card...use the ones that shipped with the card for now...
Post back with your results...Thanks for the fast help!! Unfortunately there is NO onboard video!! ANy other ideas... PleaseOOops sorry sammee...i read that wrong.
Try booting into safemode and doing what was instructed above...
To get into safemode power down and re-boot...as the machine is powering up tap F8 repeatedly before you see the Windows splash screen.
Choose safe mode from the menu and let it do it's thing.
You will see long screens of B&W TEXT on the screen this is normal...
When you finally get to Windows all your icons will be moved and maybe larger...again don't panic ...this is normal.
Follow the instructions above and then re-boot and re-install the vid card drivers...Thanks But The computer never EVEN gets to the bios. THere is no video input at all. I can't see anything at all. I did all those things that I wrote in the first message and still it only has black no video inpout screen. So I can't do what you suggest at all. It is a pain. I have now un-hooked everything on the main board except the ram and video card and power supply and it still happens. I just know it has something to do with those video diplay drivers but I cant put my finger on how it is still affecting the boot process even after clearing the cmos . In fact a few times it has actually booted all the way to windows. Perhaps 2 x out of 50. But when I try to reproduce it a second time I just cannot.

The contacts on the ram and the video card look clean and there seems to be no dust . The power supply is also a farely new on and higher quality.

Any more thoughts? try a DIFFERENT video card.