Computer video issue

2 years ago

Hi, everybody. I'm having a new issue with my very old desktop computer. I think it may have started when the electrical power blinked on and off briefly one day when the computer was just booting up. Although the computer is plugged into a battery back up device with surge protection, it still paused then and stopped booting--if I remember correctly.

Anyway, it now often goes to a black screen when booting. If I do get it to boot up, the screen shortly will begin flickering and get worse and worse until it blacks out completely again. I thought at first that it might be a problem with my monitor, but I tried another monitor on it and that one didn't do any better--though it does work on another computer.

I've tried all the more obvious stuff such as removing and replacing the monitor cable, trying a different outlet, removing the computer from the battery backup and etc. I even replaced the motherboard battery because that helped with another problem once! If anybody has any other ideas, please let me know. I was considering trying system restore, though I suspect that won't help if it is an issue of that electrical blink frying something.

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Elmer J Fudd
2 years ago
I think you've diagnosd the problem yourself, when you said:

"very old desktop computer."

Only you know your budget and your attitude about such things. Trying different software and setting alternatives yourself is free. I wouldn't spend a penny on it otherwise, new PCs are not expensive. If you want to limit your cost, take a look at Newegg or Walmart. Both offer good quality, well equipped refurbished units of respected brands for under $150.
Mo
2 years ago
Have you tried starting in safe mode?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/start-your-pc-in-safe-mode-in-windows-10-92c27cff-db89-8644-1ce4-b3e5e56fe234
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audrey_gw
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Thank you both for your comments. I did purchase a somewhat newer computer a while back, which also has a newer operating system. But figuring out how to transfer all my files from the one to the other just seemed so overwhelming that I've continued working on the old one. I also have a very slow one which I can use during emergencies--such as now.

Yes, I have tried starting the computer in safe mode, which does work up to a point--generally the point where I decide to try restarting it in the regular mode! Actually I was able to use the computer for a while the other day as long as I just was working offline in Word. But as soon as I tried to go online the flickering got much worse and the picture eventually went dark.
kudzu9
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"But figuring out how to transfer all my files from the one to the other just seemed so overwhelming that I've continued working on the old one."

It's really very simple, and you need to do this soon as the old computer is dying...you can't put it off forever. And what happens when the hard drive dies in your very old computer? Are you going to permanently lose all the files you have on that computer? Buy yourself an external hard drive, which you can get for $40-$50 on Amazon, plug it in to the old computer, and copy and paste all the files and and folders that are important to you onto this external hard drive. Then unplug it and plug it in to your newer computer, and copy and paste everything that is on the external hard drive to this newer computer. When you're done, you'll have all the files on the newer computer, and you'll also have a backup of the files that resides on the external hard drive which will prevent you losing them if something bad happens with the newer computer. Remember: it's not whether a hard drive will die, it's when.

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