Ok, this will probably be a rather long and not very well educated post.
I had a great computer, everything seemed fine, then one day it dies on me. Whenever i turned it on in the past it would give a single short *beep* which i believe is to show it has passed POST. Now it gives a long *beeep* and does not display anything on screen. After some fumbling around, it worked, once. I turned it off, and the same thing happened. I fiddled around some more and found that it would turn on if the monitor wasn't connected, but now not even that works.
Now here's a bit of a guess/some backstory.
My belief is its a problem with the graphics card, partly due to it working without a monitor attached (once) and partly because there was a problem in the past.
I have a Leadtek Winfast 128MB PX6600GT graphics card. The card has 2 ports for my monitor, which handily has 2 leads. I was informed that it may be possible to connect a single monitor to each port, so i thought of considered the 2 ports to be independent of one another. How does that matter?
I had a problem where when i played videos they would run in full screen, and i couldnt change this, nothing worked, all i could do was ALT F4 to close. I found by right clicking on the desktop i could access some options for the graphics card, one was a video option, to play on either 'Primary display' 'Secondary Display' or 'None.' So i guessed that the 2 ports being independent of each other was right, and that these were the 2 different displays i could have. So whenever i had the problem of the video playing full screen i changed the video from primary display to secondary display or from secondary display to primary display, whichever worked. One of them always did. It worked fine until now.
I have a warranty on the computer, but i can't get it fixed for 2 weeks, which is rather bothersome for me. Does anyone have any ideas on what the problem could be, and what is up with my graphics card? Or how i can troubleshoot a computer that wont even turn on?
If you have read through all this, i thank you for your time, i hope it has not been to waste.
I had a great computer, everything seemed fine, then one day it dies on me. Whenever i turned it on in the past it would give a single short *beep* which i believe is to show it has passed POST. Now it gives a long *beeep* and does not display anything on screen. After some fumbling around, it worked, once. I turned it off, and the same thing happened. I fiddled around some more and found that it would turn on if the monitor wasn't connected, but now not even that works.
Now here's a bit of a guess/some backstory.
My belief is its a problem with the graphics card, partly due to it working without a monitor attached (once) and partly because there was a problem in the past.
I have a Leadtek Winfast 128MB PX6600GT graphics card. The card has 2 ports for my monitor, which handily has 2 leads. I was informed that it may be possible to connect a single monitor to each port, so i thought of considered the 2 ports to be independent of one another. How does that matter?
I had a problem where when i played videos they would run in full screen, and i couldnt change this, nothing worked, all i could do was ALT F4 to close. I found by right clicking on the desktop i could access some options for the graphics card, one was a video option, to play on either 'Primary display' 'Secondary Display' or 'None.' So i guessed that the 2 ports being independent of each other was right, and that these were the 2 different displays i could have. So whenever i had the problem of the video playing full screen i changed the video from primary display to secondary display or from secondary display to primary display, whichever worked. One of them always did. It worked fine until now.
I have a warranty on the computer, but i can't get it fixed for 2 weeks, which is rather bothersome for me. Does anyone have any ideas on what the problem could be, and what is up with my graphics card? Or how i can troubleshoot a computer that wont even turn on?
If you have read through all this, i thank you for your time, i hope it has not been to waste.