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SCREEN BLANKS AFTER BIOS POST

I HAVE A REALLY STRANGE PROBLEM. A COMPUTER I HAVE STARTSUP AND I CAN SEE IT GO THROUGH THE MEMORY CHECK. AFTER THE MEMORY CHECK IS FINISHED IT DETECTS THE HARD DRIVES AND THEN THE SCREEN BLANKS. THE MOTHERBOARD IS AN ASUS K7V AND I HAVE AN ATHLON 700 MHZ. I TRIED CHANGING THE SLOT OF THE RAM BUT THAT DIDNT' WORK. I ALSO TRIED BOOTING UP WITHOUT ANY RAM AND DID RECEIVE BEEPS. THE STRANGE THING IS THAT WITH THE RAM AND CPU, WHEN THE SCREEN BLANKS THERE ARE NO BEEPS OR ANYTHING.

** I TESTED THE POWER SUPPLY WITH MY POWERMAX TESTER AND IT SAYS ITS OK
** I RESEATED THE CPU

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Thanks everyone for your help, I can't get into the Bios. I see the system bootup and calculate the memory. After that the screen goes blank. I hit NUMLOCK/CAPS LOCK and no lights on the keyboard blink. I also tried clearing the CMOS using the jumper on the board. Still no success.

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Hi All,

I can't even get into the bios because after the memory check the screen goes blank. There are no hard drives connected and I removed all PCI cards. It seems like a bad motherboard.

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Thanks everyone for your help, since I can't even get into the Bios I am going to try your input and take the motherboard out of the case as a last ditch effort to see if anything works. I'll let you know what happens.

eatmeimadanish

so what happened?

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I ended up junking the machine. Thanks for everyone's help.

symatron

Hi. Little late for this post but maybe it will help someone in the future.
Came across you posting in a google search for a solution to a problem with a client system. What OS? Windows Xp or 2000(same issue). My client's system had 2000 and would Freeze (unable to use keyboard and had to press reset on tower) and screen would go blank after POST. Corrupted boot.ini file as a result of worm/and or trojan virus infection. Removed virus and replaced boot.ini file. System works fine now. boot.ini can be viewed in notepad iand is 2-3 lines of text. When I open the corrupted files it was 50 times in size and filled with compiled data simiar to opening an .exe file in notepad.

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