Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
Black screen of frustration
Name: toppscrt Date: August 17, 2004 at 13:08:16 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD64-3000/512 DDR 3200
Comment:
Having problems loading Windows. Recently installed a Raptor hard drive and a clean installation of Windows. Now my computer takes anywhere from 3 to 10 minutes of blackness before initializing Windows. It also will not identify any device on the secondary master IDE. It will identify a slave device but not a master whether combined or stand alone. Somehow I feel there is a correlation between the secondary master drive problem and the black screen. Any suggestions?
Name: bigtallboy Date: August 17, 2004 at 14:02:12 Pacific
Reply:
jumpers settings just can't be right. what HD do you have exactly?
check IDE cable
probably does not need a jumper for master
0
Response Number 2
Name: bigtallboy Date: August 17, 2004 at 14:06:36 Pacific
Reply:
"identifies slave and not master" have you gotten it to boot and run with just one master hard drive?
Do you have an OS on two separate HDs?
0
Response Number 3
Name: toppscrt Date: August 17, 2004 at 15:13:09 Pacific
Reply:
Yes I do have two hard drives (unfortunately both of them have XP on them). The jumpers are correct as this system was running flawlessly until I exchanged one Raptor hard drive for another. System has a hard drive (slave) and a DVDRW on the primary IDE. On the secondary IDE, there is a DVD player and a CDRW (overkill, I know). On the SATA 1 is the Raptor hard drive. Both DVD players seem to have just stop functioning at the same time but I was able to get the DVDRW functioning although the autorun is not working up to par yet. I will work on that later. Still don't understand why the master on the primary IDE will not read anything.
Summary: Thank you very much... I had the "Black screen of Death" as well. I saw your response about upgrading the bios.. I did that and now it's working.. Thanks!! ...
Summary: Basically i have this dell inspiron 8100 laptop and one day it jsut booted up and in the middle of teh boot up, the screen jsut turned off. Now i get a black screen. The only way to get it to pop back...
Summary: Well, if it's the monitor, then why does the monitor work perfectly fine with the old pc running Windows 2000? Nope, I don't think it's the monitor -- if it was it wouldn't work with any PC, and it do...
0 
