No video on start

Hello group,
Apologies if this post should be in "hardware". A friend has a one
year old clone computer, windows XPPro sp2. I don't have the system
details, but I believe it's a late model Intel CPU. He used it for
flight simulator programs, so it's a pretty hefty system. He hasn't
turned it on for several months, but the box hasn't been moved or
damaged.
On startup, there are three long BIOS beeps, and no video at all.I
changed the monitor and that did not help. The fans are running.
I assume the problem is something very basic, since video comes up so
early in the startup process.
Does anyone have any thoughts about where to look first for the
problem? Obviously, I'd check for bad or poorly seated memory and
visually for any bad connections to the motherboard.
Is this a common problem?
Thanks for any suggestions.

Jack

Correct, should have posted in hardware group, but this is not something
specific to Windows XP, it is purely hardware, as the mainboard
desperately cries out to you with system beeps
You may want to find the mainboard's manual on the manufacturer's website
to discover what the beep pattern means exactly, this will help your
troubleshooting.

Your specific problem may lie in either:

Processor;
RAM Modules;
Video Card.

I would first try the RAM and Video card. remove these, clean the slots,
and re-seat them where they were.
Should beeping continue, you can also try with just 1 RAM stick, change
these to determine a possible faulty stick.
If you have another video card handy, same story - try it.






JClark <jclark.DeleteThis@nomail.invalid> wrote in
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> Hello group,
> Apologies if this post should be in "hardware". A friend has a one
> year old clone computer, windows XPPro sp2. I don't have the system
> details, but I believe it's a late model Intel CPU. He used it for
> flight simulator programs, so it's a pretty hefty system. He hasn't
> turned it on for several months, but the box hasn't been moved or
> damaged.
> On startup, there are three long BIOS beeps, and no video at all.I
> changed the monitor and that did not help. The fans are running.
> I assume the problem is something very basic, since video comes up so
> early in the startup process.
> Does anyone have any thoughts about where to look first for the
> problem? Obviously, I'd check for bad or poorly seated memory and
> visually for any bad connections to the motherboard.
> Is this a common problem?
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Jack
>



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