Compaq 5000 booting to black screen
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Name: jorge torres
Date: September 20, 2003 at 18:08:57 Pacific
Subject: Compaq 5000 booting to black screen
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: celeron 800/256
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Comment: I have a compaq presario 5000 with winxp on it.
Everything had been working fine, until I came
home and noticed the monitor with black screen.
tried to restart, had to physically unplug to do this.
Now it boots to a black screen, and at time it will
actually boot up. It will work for a while and then
freeze up and on restart, black screen again. I
have noticed each time after freeze up and boot
up, all drives start up except the disk drive, no
power or activity from it, unlike when it boots up
normally. please help, I have even replaced the
motherboard since I thought that was it, and it
worked for a couple of days and then started
doing it again. I need advice on this one.
thanks
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Response Number 2
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Name: MsLiz
Date: October 17, 2003 at 13:29:52 Pacific
Subject: Compaq 5000 booting to black screen
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Reply: (edit)I have the same exact problem. The computer doesn't really boot up, the BIOS never completes the transfer. I noticed one more thing...I use a surge protector into which I have everything plugged. During normal operations, after turning on the main switch I still have to start my computer...that's good BUT...if I turn on the main switch...and the computer powers up...that's when it doesn't boot up. I did remove the CPU from the surge protector...didn't matter.
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