This dog won't hunt! (No Video Display - Won't Boot )

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I'll try to keep this short...

P3 white box, XP Pro plat.

On power-up/boot, hard drive (bios default) appears/sounds
to be running, but just loops forever. I am pretty
comfortable with techie stuff but this is a real corker.
It was working fine and I didn't make or add any
hard/software changes. Suffice to say that I have tried
every manner and form of published trouble shooting
solutions I could find to get this ol'dog to run. F8-Safe,
F1, F12, ERD's, Emerg. boot disk, etc.etc.
Without video, there are so many possible causes, it's
like trying to figure out why your car won't run with a
hood that you can't open. Can someone suggest a methodical
A-Z diagnostic process?

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

If video is a separate card in the machine, try swapping it out for one that
is known to work.. if video is integrated, a board swap might be the only
way forward..


"Davis Q." <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:06f001c48b44$81063080$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I'll try to keep this short...
>
> P3 white box, XP Pro plat.
>
> On power-up/boot, hard drive (bios default) appears/sounds
> to be running, but just loops forever. I am pretty
> comfortable with techie stuff but this is a real corker.
> It was working fine and I didn't make or add any
> hard/software changes. Suffice to say that I have tried
> every manner and form of published trouble shooting
> solutions I could find to get this ol'dog to run. F8-Safe,
> F1, F12, ERD's, Emerg. boot disk, etc.etc.
> Without video, there are so many possible causes, it's
> like trying to figure out why your car won't run with a
> hood that you can't open. Can someone suggest a methodical
> A-Z diagnostic process?
>
>
>
>