Hello,

I have a problem regarding my GPU card.

It was working perfectly fine last night. When I turned on my computer this morning, I would see the regular bootup black screen, where you see the memory count and the IDE hardware installed, etc etc.

Once the boot sequence is done, my screen goes totally black.

Reluctantly I removed GPU card and reinstalled it just incase it was a bad connection. (which I doubt it was to begin with.)

I then rebooted my comp would see that black screen of memory count, and again my screen would go totally black.

Removed the cable from GPU card and monitor gives me a message that it is not connected.

I reconnect and still get black screen.

However I do know that the operating system is functioning fine, since I do hear the microsoft sound wave once its operating.

I do have another computer the one i am using NOW but unfortunately I cannot test my GPU card on it. Its old pentium 2 & it has a built in sis graphic card on the MB. It has no VGA slot, just 3 pci's and 2 isa slots.

I was going to buy a new GPU card, thinking it is short circuited. But for some reason I am hesitating, thinking perhaps I must have missed something. Afterall I am seeing the bootup sequence black screen.

Dont know what the problem can be?????

1) Could it be my GPU card drivers (Which i doubt)

2) Could it be grapic card slot thats defective or

3) Main Motherboard related problem?

4) Some kind of virus or trojan? I do use Avast and its always up to date.

I was thinking of reinstalling windows xp by using the repair mode.

Perhaps one you can help me out and offer a advice or solution it would be greatly appreciated.

My system is a
Asus A7V Motherboard
Asus V7100 Series Geforce2 MX 200 GPU card
AMD Duron 850
512 Meg ram

Some advices, press F8 and see if you can boot into safe mode or any other "Last Known Configuration". If F8 doesn't work, try inserting the Windows XP CD and booting from it, if that works, then it has to be Windows. I would imagine that if the GPU was bad, it wouldn't display anything at all. I am guessing it has something to do with the Windows Drivers.

i rarely ever use or recommend using the repair mode. to much leftover junk after. gather as much data off the drive as possible or put the drive as secondary in another system and extract that data that way. At worst do a repair then get the data (whatever is left) and then to a complete restore.

But like Gsurface try safe mode first

also may want to check bios settings as well

Thanks.

Video card was not the problem as it turns out.

I did an F8, and no matter what option i chose, be it safe mode, or last successful boot etc etc, nothing did work.

I even tried to use my windows xp cd to do a repair, but even that failed.

So i inserted an extra hard drive that i had on hand and installed windows on it.

to make long story short i did an online trojan scan and found the source of the problem.

saved the data that i had n my C drive and did a full low level format using western digital diagnostics diskette.

all is well now finally.