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by choy.waigiat

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When I boot up the PC, there is a long beep follow by 3 short beeps and there is no display on the monitor. The status light on the PC is blinking green color.

Is it the graphics card or the AGP slot is spoilt?
I do not have another AGP or PCI graphics card to test out.

Anyone can help?

thanks and regards,

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by tech_wiz03

The beep codes match AMI bios error codes and ibm error codes. In both cases it is saying memory failure. For AMI it is saying total memory failure therefore system will not start and no error message will display. For IBM it says Video memory has failed video adapter has failed.

First try and change the memory either by reseating or changing the modules positions. Next step is to replace memory if the first step failed to give results. Last step is replace video card or memory on video card if card has replaceable memory. You may elect to have video card checked in a known good system to rule out card failure.

Rick

topics at alltechdevelopment.netfirms.com under hardware upgrade links might also help you.

by choy.waigiat

Now I can boot up with display after some fiddling. Now a new problem has occurred, the system hang before it goes into the windows desktop. The screen shows the mouse cursor and wallpaper. thats it. No activity from the hard disk. I'm using WIN ME.

by dbowlin

In addition to what answer 1 said. Try removing and reseating the video card. I had one computer where I could not screw down the video card because it slightly unseated the far end of the video card.

Good luck,

by choy.waigiat

Now I can boot up with display after some fiddling. Now a new problem has occurred, the system hang before it goes into the windows desktop. The screen shows the mouse cursor and wallpaper. thats it. No activity from the hard disk. I'm using WIN ME.

by casemaker

Strip the pc so only video keyboard and mouse are connected. I mean all power to devices and data cables. Uninstall all other io cards except video. if dead uninstall memory and you will get the bios beep codes to id your problem. Be sure to disconnect cd drives. They have been known to cause a short that creates a dead system.

by choy.waigiat

Now I can boot up with display after some fiddling. Now a new problem has occurred, the system hang before it goes into the windows desktop. The screen shows the mouse cursor and wallpaper. thats it. No activity from the hard disk. I'm using WIN ME.

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