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Pop goes the weasel

My father (84 yrs old) turned on the computer and everything booted up ok to the desktop and as he was mousing around he heard a pop and the screen went blank. He turned computer off and on several times by pressing the power button, but nothing. Power light on monitor constant green, power light on computer flashing green... I am not physically there to check it out but suspect a new monitor might be the cheapest solution?

Coopertwo Dec 18, 2007

The strangest thing... He turned the computer on a day or so later and everything worked fine and has worked as usual since then. It's a mystery...
chucksbc Jan 01, 2008

first got the flashing green power lite on pc after power returned post Katrina. Today I shut the pc down to install more memory and a graphics card. After install all I got was flashing green.

In the first instance it was flashing for several hours then rihgted itself. I'm currently waiting out this time.

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