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Video card or monitor going?

19 years ago

I turn computer on in morning and I do not get normal blue screen welcome and traveling dot etc. Just solid blank black screen. I do get the audio da-de-da part of normal loading. After 10 minutes looking at the blank black screen the screen saver comes on. Click off screen saver and there is my normal desktop icons and a normal working machine. Now the 10 minute delay has slowly grown out to 50 minutes now.If I go to start>restart as if I were installing a program I get a normal shut-down - startup blue screen welcome etc.Computer is compaq 3 yr. old 2.16 GHZ Win XP Home 512 MB DDR 80 GB HD 52GB free space integrated via unichrome graphics card. Monitor is CRT 6years old. Something is slowly going out as you can see. Any comments and suggestions appreciated. Its going to stay on 24/7! hughe

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randy_ca
19 years ago
It sounds like neither monitor or video card to me.
First thing I'd do is set screensaver to "None" right click on desktop/ propeties/screensaver.
For some reason windows is loading slowly, could be a corrupted program trying to load in the background at startup.
Click start/run/type> msconfig and under the startup tab, see if there are any programs that you don't need running and uncheck them.
If you have the XP CD, click start/run/type> sfc /scannow, *note the space between c and /
If worse comes to worse, you may have to do a repair install of XP, but it could be something as simple as your anti-virus program or some other program is messed up and not loading correctly at startup.
mikie_gw
19 years ago
Have you done the simple stuff.. open the case follow the vga cable to the card and unplug replug it in.. same for the cable from the computer to the monitor.. unconnect/reconnect. Take a good look while its apart for corrosion or signs of burn marks.

Otherwise it does sound like the monitor is capooping out to me. I'd carry it to my neighbors house or computer shop while cold and see if it does the same slow cold start there.
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