have yo tried taking your video card and testing it. Also something may have corrupted the driver for it. Normally if you get a post then the board sees the video card and is able to send an output signal to it. When you took the hard drive out and placed it inside another computer you got the same results correct, * 7 stood out in my mind. You took the hard drive out and placed it in another computer, did you try and boot off that drive or of another drive using a diferent os. I have had the problem where the bar will stop when it says loading windows xp and ususally i have to go in and reinstall the operating system. Can you boot into dos and run a chkdisk and find out if you have a daamaged hard drive. My first reccomendation is to open it up on another computer as a slave to a master hard drive, and copy your most critical data just in case you do have a problem with the hard drive. Then you can scan the hard drive with a virus scanner.
Ray
rdlacy < rdlacy%40basicisp.net">rdlacy
basicisp.net> wrote:
Hi
It sounds like it may be your video card or video drivers.
Try booting into safe mode. If it goes into safe mode,
your video drivers or your video card may be bad.
Safe mode uses generic drivers to boot.
The initial BIOS, POST at bootup and the XP logo use different
drivers then windows XP. See if there are updated drivers
for your video card.
Roger
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wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am stuck. Saturday, I booted my pc and everything worked just
fine. After a few hours of the pc being idle, I went to the pc to do
some work and noticed is was a little sluggish so I rebooted.
>
> After it rebooted, the screen went black right the XP Logo with the
small bar that scrolls from left to right. I did a hard reboot and
the same thing happened.
>
> Here's what I tried so far to troubleshoot:
>
> 1) Removed all peripherals except hard drive, video card, RAM. Got
the same results (black screen after the XP Logo).
> 2) Reseated the RAM (same results as #1).
>; 3) Disconnected and reconnected the power cord from the motherboard
(same results as #1).
>; 4) Reseated video card (same results as #1).
>; 5) Reconnected the main hard drive (same results as #1).
>; 6) Cleared the CMOS by removing internal battery and changing
jumpers on motherboard (same results as #1)
> 7) Placed the hard drive into another desktop as MASTER (same
results as #1)
> 8) Same as number 7 but changed the hard drive from MASTER to SLAVE
and I was able to see all the data/folders/files on the hard drive.
>
> If the video card was bad, I don't think I would see the initial
BIOS, POST at bootup and the XP logo.
>
> What else can I try?
>;
> Does it sound like the hard drive is dying or possibly corrupt?
>
> This is my main PC with a lot of data on it and I would like to get
it back up and running again. I have my data on other hard drives in
the pc but would like to fix my pc.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help.
>
> Vin
>
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