I’m having an issue with my desktop PC recently. For some reason, after the Windows XP load screen passes, my monitor goes blank- it does not indicate that the signal is lost and there is a green light on the monitor to indicate there is a signal, plus there is no hard drive activity after this point- if i watch my HDD light on the front of my PC it doesn’t blink once.
I have rebooted into safe mode and that works fine. I have also uninstalled the video drivers for the card installed in the PC (ATI Radeon 9800 XT) and tried rebooting normally to have XP redetect the card but the same blank screen happens. I have also tried a different monitor and disconnected all peripherals from the PC with no luck.
I am going to try removing the video card and using the onboard video as i have read some posts indicating this may be a video driver issue, although i’m skeptical after the attempts i’ve made to address a video issue haven’t made a difference.
My machine is running Windows XP with Service Pack 3 RC.. I haven’t made any hardware changes recently, and i have only made a few software changes recently (removed and reinstalled drivers for D-Link DWL-G132 Airplus ExtremeG wireless USB adapter- which have since been removed), uninstalled Google toolbar for IE (v7), and installed network magic v4.6)
I have also tried physically removing the video card and using the onboard video, along with removing/switching RAM modules into different slots on the motherboard, both yeilded no results.
Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
