Computer boots up but no video display.

I have a AcerPower F2 computer here and when I boot it up, the lights indicate that the computer is going through the motions of booting up, but there is no video, not even pre-post. It has video on board. I tried to use a different video card, but still no post. It does not have an AGP slot, but I tried a PCI video card. Do you have suggestions? Thanks, Lorne

Lorne Warren Mar 28, 2007

Actually, I cannot even get in to the BIOS to make changes there. It just doesn't even boot that far. Tried a different monitor. No luck.

But thanks.

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If it has onboard video and you've added a video card, sometimes you need to disable the onboard video in the BIOS as it won't send output to both when they are there. I would try a different monitor and eliminate that as a possibility also.

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