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Re: What the @$#%@$ is wrong with my computer?

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From: Tom MacIntyre
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 03:14
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 02:18:20 GMT, Spike <punkrock@austin.rr.com>
wrote:

>Moved my second computer tonight and upon start up the monitor said "No 
>Signal" I hooked up another monitor and different cable I know works and 
>got the same message. I replaced the pci vid card with another identical 
>one-NO CHANGE! I changed PCI slots. I installed another vid card, this 
>one AGP-NO CHANGE!
>I tried a third monitor-No Change. I then shot the computer with a 
>shotgun, well actually that isn't true (yet). Thoughts?
>Spike

When you moved the system, something changed. It could be physical,
ESD, or something else. Did you leave a monitor cable dangling from
the video card, and move across a carpet? That still wouldn't explain
the AGP problem, necessarily. 

Is the power LED on the computer coming on? Is it making the normal
bootup sounds?

Tom
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