[Winchester]

Hey everybody. The kind people at my first thread told me to put this in the monitor area. So, would someone please help me out?
I'm in Kansas, and, as most of you may know, a huge ice storm hit it this most recent Tuesday. The computer in question was on when a major electricity blowout hit half of Kansas. It was off till Friday, and the house was about 30 degrees all week.
Yesterday, the electricity came back on. I let my room heat up a little, then turned on my computer. It loaded up to the point with the Microsoft insignia, then the monitor goes black, and said that there was no signal. It's been like that since yesterday, and now it won't even load. It turns on, but no signal goes through.
So should I get a new computer, or monitor, or should I just see if I can get it fixed. Right now I'm using my parents computers, but their getting a bit annoyed.
If any of you could tell me the problem, that'd be great.
Thank you.
Winchester

[zerocool]

Test your monitor on your parents computer but I have a feeling it could be your graphics card, if you test your monitor on your parents computer to rule out the monitor being the problem I would then borrow a working graphics card from someone to check out the graphics card, if the problem still persists I would hazard a guess that the motherboard has decided to give up

[MJM]

I would go ahead and blame the graphics card right away.

Why would the monitor show anything otherwise?
Doy ou have another one you could insert for testing purposes?

[mrdaveyk]

as far as i can remember from past reading, when you turn your computer on straight away and all the sexy black and white writing appears, and then turns off when loading your OS its normaly GFX card related.

what card you got?

try another card?

have you got an onboard card? you could plug it into the old input you may have once used, remove the old card, activate the onboard in the bios and see what happens

its a processor of elimination really