cranerw31 0 Posted April 23, 2006 On a cold boot I receive multiple beeps, the led on monitor changes to yellow, "no video signal" message appears on monitor, but I can hear the HD continue through the boot process. If I wait long enough for Windows to load, even though the screen is still blank, I can use keyboard to reboot computer and on reboot the monitor works fine. With cold boots, if I repeat enough times it eventually boots ok. This is an older home brew computer. Specifics: gateway msi 6330 MB; Athlon xp 1100; 512 mb pc133; Radeon 9200 se; HP 190?2 flat panel monitor using digital cable and connectors; On board sound; no onboard video; PCI usb2; pci ethernet. It works fine after a sucessful boot and on all rebots but is a pain first thing in the morning before my coffee. I've tried reseating the agp card several times, and reconnecting the cables, It is one of my daughter's computer and I'm supposed to be the guru. Ha! Any suggestions appreciated. Share this post Link to post
tool_462 0 Posted April 25, 2006 My roomate occasionally had the same problem with a PC build he was working on. We never officially figured out what was wrong, but when he switched power supplies with a different PC (for a different reason than the video problem) it stopped happening completely. Both PSU's were the same wattage, but the one that the video blanked out on was about 4 years of solid use old, and the other one was about 6 months old. I can't say that is the problem, but simply a similar situation with an (accidently) resolution. Share this post Link to post
cranerw31 0 Posted April 26, 2006 Thanks, tools_462. I'm going to try a different AGP card and monitor cable, if that doesn't fix it then I'll try switching power supplies. The Power supply exchange is a little more difficult. Thanks again, RWC Share this post Link to post
