I have a GeForce 2 vid card, it's about 3 years old, and I believe it tossed in the towel, when I fire up the comp. bios screen looks fine, the little winxp green bar thing is fine until it goes to switch to a more complicated graphic then it just gives up and my monitor light starts flashing, I can get it into safe mode and the screen is all messed, but it loads up, I know it loads even when I see nothing, because it plays the windows chime, I have a couple of shortcuts that play music I know where they are, and they work fine... I plan on getting an A.T.I. 9500 if that will work with my current proc. the ram is PC-133 if that makes a diff. anyone else concur that this is a vid card problem, I have no way of testing it, other than to just take it to a comp. shop, Thanks for any info Craash

How much are you willing to spend for a new video card?

Before you belly up for a new card I would completely uninstall the old drivers and re-install.

I had the same problem with my Geforce 2 MX 440. I replaced it with a GeForce 4 MX 440 and it worked fine. Im thinking your card just died.

I would suspect that since the BIOS is displaying fine that it may be a driver problem. Try downloading a utility to remove all display adapter, then change to standard vga mode. Then download most current drivers for that sucker and see how it works... Of course, you will probably need a secondary graphics card to accomplish all this anyway, so unless you have one lying around, I would go for an upgrade. An upgrade would improve performance etc. I would mention to be careful with voltages on older MOBs with new graphics cards. Sometimes you have to manually change a jumper, etc. Good luck!

yes it was a driver problem, it works fine now... Thanks everyone