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Schweinhund
Oct 23, 2004

:derp:   :kayak:                                     

davidspackage posted:

Now, if I try to turn on my PC, a red light goes on on the motherboard, the fans all spin (including the ones on the videocard), and I can feel at least one of the hard drives runs (a SATA drive, the other's an SSD). But the screen (I've hooked up my PC to my TV with HDMI) stays black. My TV indicates that there's activity on the HDMI port that the PC is hooked up, but nothing else happens. I've got a USB hub that lights up when my computer powers on, that stays dark now.

... But since the USB hub stays dark, I assume it's not just a matter of the video not working.

What I read is the bios tries to load the video first. So it might be getting stuck at the video card not working and not trying to load the other stuff. Maybe the video card became unseated?

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