Im running windows XP on an emachines computer which is 3 years old 2400+ AMD Athlon 3D ProSavage
The problem is : yesterday I noticed my desktop picture was dark and garbled. I tried different desktop images and it wasn’t the problem. So I checked my settings that was 1074×768 16 bit or something like that. they were the same as always. so I tried updating video driver…still problem so i rolled it back. I took out my restore Cd that came with computer and went to drivers video and reinstalled the factory driver that came with computer. it said i had to reboot for setting to take effect. I did and screen never came back. it is black . no bios flash, cant get into bios, nothing it is just black and blank. computer ha all fans working and the little beep and when i turned it off it even did the little windows chime…but nothing on screen!!! pUT IN RESTORE cD SCREEN just black still. couldnt see anything come up saying anything. I connected my monitor to daughters laptop and there was graphics like her desktop image and everything but it was all very dark. Also before my screen went black i tried to set brightness but OSD box was black listing no settings. it also did the same thing on daughters laptop when i hooked it to hers… please help I can usualyy fix these things when its software or such but I need to SEE IT to do so LOL