Thread: Even geeks need help.... (help!)
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Old Mar 22, 2005 | 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by wagz182ksu
Try an old AGP or PCI vid card to see if you can get it to boot. after the splash screen is where the vid card actually starts its real job.

I had a ATI 9800 pro die on me, (power pin on the molex leading into the video card was blackened)... put in my old geforce2 GTS and it booted fine.

Give a backup vid card a shot.
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I had a computer at work do kind of what you described, and it was a data acquisition card. Now granted you probably don't have a DAQ card, but check your peripherals.
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