Jas
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any idea why?
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_Allan_
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Rab
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Laptop? PC?
Monitor plugged in to power / pc, not came undone at the back?
Just a black screen? Lights on, on the monitor, or just PC?
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Linch
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 what runs?
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_Allan_
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quote:
Originally posted by Linch
what runs?
My arse, after a Vindaloo and 6 pints of Stella 
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Linch
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quote:
Originally posted by _Allan_
quote:
Originally posted by Linch
what runs?
My arse, after a Vindaloo and 6 pints of Stella
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Jas
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the pc sounds normal starting up, but nothing comes on the screen and my keyboard ligts are coming on so theres obv something up
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eskiboy
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same thing happened to me, unplug computer from mains and try again.
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Jas
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any reason why it did it. it had some error message earlier too
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Brett
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Jas the computer idiot FTW
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Jas
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Brett the ball gobbler FTW
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_Allan_
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Possibly video card, running onboard or seperate graphics card?. I'd try the monitor on another PC or laptop to rule that out first. Then if you have an onboard monitor connector try plugging it into that. Unless it's disabled in the bios  . Alternatively try and source another graphics card and install that to try.
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Jas
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monitors fine, ive tried other gfx cards too..
the on board monitor connector has dvi and vga neither work 
its odd
all new yesterday, id rather try resolve than send back before any asks.. if it cant be ressolved simply then il send it back
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Jas
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ok it gets better. its not turning on at all now, although the led is on the mobo
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_Allan_
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Whats was all new yesterday? What have you bought?. The onboard might not work as it may be disabled in the BIOS. Not that you'll see that.
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Jas
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I bought a custom built PC..
the on board was working perfect until this evening...
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_Allan_
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Open up the case and check all the leads inside are secure.
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Jas
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Ok just done that and everything feels fine...
I unplugged it for a while and its actually powering on now, but still no luck with seeing things on screen...
if i plug a radeon gfx card in do i need the drivers in too in order to get it to install?
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_Allan_
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No the graffix card will use windows standard vga drivers until you can install the correct Radeon drivers.
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Jas
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the only disc that will boot with the mobo driver,,
it says press DEL to enter SETUP or press TAB to display BIOS POST message
but upon pressing either key nothing happens..
ive tried putting in a vista disk and also an xp disk nothing happens
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Jas
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just removed a stick of ram and its started up fine...
something like that makes such a difference 
shocked!
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Gaz
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you not pressed the ctrl and(button) to change this from a screen to another output like you can on a laptop?
Is this possible on a PC
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_Allan_
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quote:
Originally posted by Jas
just removed a stick of ram and its started up fine...
something like that makes such a difference
shocked!
Jas it aint a Dell is it?. I've seen this twice in work and forgot all about it. Both Dells and memory wasn't seated correctly. A small bump on the desk was enough to move one stick slightly. They were both shipped like that  . Although was your seated or have you removed a stick completely?. have you swapped it over to the other slot to see if it is the memory?.
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tom_simes
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TBF Jas, you did well to type all this thread without being able to read what was on the screen 
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Rab
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If its Vista 32bit you are using, it only supports up to 3BG of RAM. If you had 4GB in, then you need the 64bit vista. If you were sold a 32bit vista and 4GB of RAM, I would complain =)
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