I've got a problem with my graphics card I believe in that when I boot up my PC, it goes through the hardware checking etc, then when the XP logo screen appears it normally changes straight to the user accounts to log on to, however, a couple of days ago I got a message of 'no signal' ... I've tried changing my screen cable, checking the graphics card wasn't loose, burnt out etc, but it seemed ok.
So I thought I'd try and F8 and boot into safe mode (newish pc never done this before) to reinstall the drivers n see if this helped, but every time I've tried I can't get the boot menu up ... and I've looked in the bios settings but I can't see anything about boot options in it.
I've read through some older posts on here but they haven't helped!
I've also tried putting in a new graphics card but I can't even get the initial hardware checking to come up, the screen just stays blank!!
Any suggestions anyone has got would be most appreciated!!
System specs (self build brought of ebay) ... I'm not a n00b to the innerds of a PC as I've installed graphics cards on other machines, but might aswell be with this bloody issue, I can't get my head round it...
Graphics Card Problem ... I Think
in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP
Posted · Edited by MikeSilver
Hi All!!
I've got a problem with my graphics card I believe in that when I boot up my PC, it goes through the hardware checking etc, then when the XP logo screen appears it normally changes straight to the user accounts to log on to, however, a couple of days ago I got a message of 'no signal' ... I've tried changing my screen cable, checking the graphics card wasn't loose, burnt out etc, but it seemed ok.
So I thought I'd try and F8 and boot into safe mode (newish pc never done this before) to reinstall the drivers n see if this helped, but every time I've tried I can't get the boot menu up ... and I've looked in the bios settings but I can't see anything about boot options in it.
I've read through some older posts on here but they haven't helped!
I've also tried putting in a new graphics card but I can't even get the initial hardware checking to come up, the screen just stays blank!!
Any suggestions anyone has got would be most appreciated!!
System specs (self build brought of ebay) ... I'm not a n00b to the innerds of a PC as I've installed graphics cards on other machines, but might aswell be with this bloody issue, I can't get my head round it...
2.6ghz, Abit motherboard
XP sp 3
geforce fx5200 256mb graphics card
1gb ram
400gb hd spread over 3 disks
Thanks
Mike