No Video

Hey all! I have a comp that has no video. It powers up fine, no error codes or beeps, all fans running, and lights are on. Just no video. It has a PCI Express x16 card in it. All i have to swap out to tell if its bad is a PCI card. When i put it in i still have to video. I tried all the slots still nothing. Does CMOS need to be changed to regular PCI for video? If it does i cant see it anyway to change it. Should i just get a new PCI Express card or try a AGP card? Thanks for any help.

when you say no video, do you mean no output to the screen at all?
Does this motherboard have onboard video?

Yeah it had no output, and no it doesn't have OB video. I picked up a new pci express card it it fixed it. Thanks for you help.

I ran into this problem on someone else's computer this week. The video card was working ok and so was the monitor. I tried using the recovery console to repair the problem but that did fix it. I then tried using windows repair and it too did not fix it. So, I then recalled that I had another hard drive sitting around that had 98se on it and another one that had xp on it. I temporarily removed the old drive and replaced it with one of the others I had. Upon boot, I noticed everything worked fine. Had the video card not worked at all, it still would not have worked with the other hard drives.

I then removed the temp hard drive and reinstalled the original hard drive that I had previously removed.

I then plugged in the system to a different monitor. It still did not work. This then told me that the problem was the system's video drivers. I then partitioned then formatted the hard drive and reinstalled windows. Everything worked fine after that.