So here's the dilemma.
I was taking out one of my four hard drive out of my system. I had to take the video card out to remove one of the cages holding my hard drives out. That went ok. Then I proceeded to assemble my build together, and hit the power button.
Then I started hearing clicking, and the monitor didn't light up.
It was kind of odd, so I started eliminating factors which could contribute to the cause. And this is what I got:
* I unhooked everything, including all my hard drives and my DVD drive and my floppy disk drive. I still hear clicking...
* I was able to connect to the motherboard's onboard VGA and see my BIOS and everything just fine.
* My video card, however, won't output anything anymore.
* My hard drives still work fine.
* When I tried to install the video driver for my onboard VGA port, the screen went dark. After five dark minutes, I rebooted.
* The clicking stopped after I took out my video card.
* Currently, the computer will boot up and load the BIOS and everything and show the Windows XP loading screen. 10 seconds after that, I still see black (nothing appears afterwards).
I haven't tried "repairing" Windows XP yet, which may fix the video card issue. However, I want to know whether it's my motherboard, my video card, or my power supply (500W by Apevia). They all have been working for three years, although I was gone for the past 6 months. Anyone have any ideas?
I was taking out one of my four hard drive out of my system. I had to take the video card out to remove one of the cages holding my hard drives out. That went ok. Then I proceeded to assemble my build together, and hit the power button.
Then I started hearing clicking, and the monitor didn't light up.
It was kind of odd, so I started eliminating factors which could contribute to the cause. And this is what I got:
* I unhooked everything, including all my hard drives and my DVD drive and my floppy disk drive. I still hear clicking...
* I was able to connect to the motherboard's onboard VGA and see my BIOS and everything just fine.
* My video card, however, won't output anything anymore.
* My hard drives still work fine.
* When I tried to install the video driver for my onboard VGA port, the screen went dark. After five dark minutes, I rebooted.
* The clicking stopped after I took out my video card.
* Currently, the computer will boot up and load the BIOS and everything and show the Windows XP loading screen. 10 seconds after that, I still see black (nothing appears afterwards).
I haven't tried "repairing" Windows XP yet, which may fix the video card issue. However, I want to know whether it's my motherboard, my video card, or my power supply (500W by Apevia). They all have been working for three years, although I was gone for the past 6 months. Anyone have any ideas?
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