Alan2273 Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 A friend has just phoned me, hwe has aproblem with his computer.He is running XP pro with SP2.He switched on his computer and the windows loading page with the bar that goes across came on then the screen went blue and then black, so he rebooted and just a black screen.Could the graphics card have gone?.the computer is 3- 1/2 years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 could be... does he have onboard graphics on the mobo that you can enable to test? Or do you have a spare card Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted July 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Problem solved, it was not the graphics card.Apparently a lightening strike took out a serial modem, so he replaced it with a USB modem (yes some are still on dial up) without removing the serial modem.How this affected the AGP bus I have not got a clue, but after him telling me about the modem I told him to take out the USB modem, and his screen worked at bootup, so I told him to go into Device manager and Uninstall both modems, then switch off and disconnect the serial modem and reboot, it detected the new modem asked for the drivers and is working OK now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagwoood Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 How this affected the AGP bus I have not got a clue, ......They may have both been assigned the same IRQ. Just a thought :) Glad it's sorted though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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