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monitor has no video during boot

Asked by: nbroughton

SOYO motherboardP4I865PE with AGP video card and Viewsonic 912B monitor w/WinXP. During boot, the video will not show, the green "on lite" on the monitor flashes. After the PC has booted to the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen, you can turn the monitor off for a couple of minutes and then turn it back on and have the Ctrl-Alt-Del screen, login and all is fine. THe PC has worked great for a couple of years.
I have replaced the AGP video card, tried a different monitor, tried booting to WinXP CD but cannot hit the key at the proper time to boot from CD. Cannot get into BIOS either to check anything.

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by: nobusPosted on 2008-01-05 at 00:15:28ID: 20588348

Try the following key : Del
here the link to the manual :  http://www.soyo.com/uploads/downloads//manuals/p4/MP4IP2v10.pdf

for your problem, check if it behaves the same in safe mode
or run sfc /scannow from the run box

 

by: nbroughtonPosted on 2008-01-05 at 08:19:53ID: 20589483

Good Morning nobus, Thank for your reply.
I have run the sfc command twice. When it finishes it just closes. I do no tsee alog file anywhere to see if it replaced any. I also cannot enter safe mode because it has no output to the screen during boot. I have tried several dozen times to hit del and F8 while booting, and I amy be getting to the BIOS or the F8 menu but I have no output so I cannot do anything while in there even if I did get in. See my problem? I have looked through the manual extensively but have not found anythign there to help either. I suppose my only option is to replace the motherboard. It is about the only thing I have not replaced. It does not have onboard video ouput. Do you have any other suggestions?

 

by: nobusPosted on 2008-01-05 at 08:42:53ID: 20589568

>>   When it finishes it just closes  <<  that is what it doess, no log - no nothing, thanks to MS
try to reset the bios with the jumper, or disconnect AC, and take the battery out for a minute, then put it back and reboot

 

by: nbroughtonPosted on 2008-01-06 at 05:49:30ID: 20593900

Sorry, I forgot to say that in the origianl posting. I had reset my  BIOS already also last weekend. To me that was a last resort, but I am just about out of ideas. You have been very helpful. Anything else? I believe that it is time for a motherboard. Would that be your best guess at this point?

 

by: nobusPosted on 2008-01-06 at 07:48:29ID: 20594243

you can look for a similar board, and copy the bios chip, or use these :
http://www.recoverybios.com/                                    replace bios
http://www.badflash.com/                                        "          "
http://bioschips.nlan.org/                                    bad bios chip
http://www.unicore.com/                                    Bios upgrade

 

by: nbroughtonPosted on 2008-01-06 at 17:33:25ID: 31419119

We really did not solve the problem. It is very difficult to find a solution w/o just replacing the motherboard. The MB is sevearl years old, so I imagine I will just replace it instead of going to the trouble of trying to fix it.

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