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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: lagerlass on October 22, 2003, 20:04

Title: blank screen
Post by: lagerlass on October 22, 2003, 20:04

hi there, hope someone can help,dad having probs when booting up pc,get the first screen, beeps once and goes black - running windows xp, anyone got any ideas
thanks

Title: Re:blank screen
Post by: Adept on October 22, 2003, 20:32

Does it get past the BIOS screen Lagerlass (counting the memory, telling you about the hardware etc)?

It sounds to me as if, either the hard drive has failed or the BIOS settings for the drive have been changed causing the drive to be unreadable.

Title: Re:blank screen
Post by: lagerlass on October 22, 2003, 21:12

hi,gets to that screen where does mem check etc but then it beeps and goes blank

Title: Re:blank screen
Post by: Adept on October 22, 2003, 21:14

OK, you'll need to count the beeps. There should be one long beep and a number of short ones.

Title: Re:blank screen
Post by: lagerlass on October 24, 2003, 08:16

hi, there is just the one beep and then nothing, no sound and a blank screen

Title: Re:blank screen
Post by: Sandra on October 24, 2003, 11:49

Has this only just started happening ?
Will it start in safe mode and display the screen or does it not even get to that stage ?