Screen dies when booting up
I have an old HP Pavilion 8630 I have not used it for sometime but have some data I now want to access.
I recently tried to power up the computer only for the screen to go black/blank on me.
Can I do anything to get the screen to work?
I recently tried to power up the computer only for the screen to go black/blank on me.
Can I do anything to get the screen to work?
Computers & Internet - Nvidia - Riva TNT2 16 MB Graphic Card
Answers & Comments
TRY PLUGGING IN EXTERNAL MONITOR, THIS IS IF YOU HAVE A LABTOP AND I THINK NOT.
HOW ABOUT REMOVING THE OLD DRIVE AND PUTING IT ON THE NEW COMPUTER AS 2ND DRIVER OR SLAVE DRIVE, SOME COMPUTER CABLES OFFER SELLECT CABLE THE C DRIVE WOULD BE 0 AND 2ND DRIVE WOULD BE 1, IF YOU DONT HAVE SELECT CABLE THAN EACH DRIVE HAS TO BE SET UP YOU WILL HAVE TO GO TO THE MFG WEB SITE LOOK UP JUMPER SETTINGS, THE FIRST DRIVE WILL BE THE MASTER AND THE SECOND ONE WILL BE THE SLAVE, NOW IF YOUR CD ROM IS ON WITH THE HD THAN YOU WILL HAVE TO HAVE 2ND CABLE FOR THE CDROM TOPUT ON THE 2ND SET OF PINS MARKED 2ND HD OPTION AND YOU HARD DRIVERS MASTER AND SLAVE GO ON
BANK 0 IF IT SAYS 0, IF IT SAY1 THAN PUT IT ON 1.
REBOOT AND THE COMPUTER WILL START AND PUT YOU INTO THE CMOS AND YOU WILL ADD THE HARD DRIVE BY GOING TO 2ND HD PUTTING CYCL, HDS, SECT, YES LBA
2ND CABLE YOU SELECT CD OR DVD
F10 AND YES
REBOOT
EVERYTHING SHOULD WORK FINE.
IF YOU DONT FILL CONFERTIBLE DOING THIS TYPE OF INSTALLATION THAN HAVE YOUR COMPUTER PROGRAMER FRIEND DO IT FOR YOU OR COMPUTER TECHN WILL WORK TOO.
ROD