not getting any video from my old desktop

1. 2019-10-27 at 6:43 AM UTC

   #21
   

   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

   Originally posted by Vitamin G That's even worse. The gypsies are a persecuted people

   
   persecuted by wariat
2. 2019-10-27 at 11:28 AM UTC

   #22
   

   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]

   Originally posted by aldra means there's a problem with your harddrive
   
   
   the fact that it detects the drive but can't load the boot manager probably means it was either wiped or hardware failure

   
   But he said he gets absolutely no video now. If it were just a bad harddrive, he'd at least be getting a blank display come up.
3. 2019-10-27 at 2:54 PM UTC

   #23
   Japan-Is-Eternal Naturally Camouflaged

   Originally posted by aldra means there's a problem with your harddrive
   
   
   the fact that it detects the drive but can't load the boot manager probably means it was either wiped or hardware failure

   
   there isn't anything wrong with the hard drive, I haven't installed an OS yet.
4. 2019-10-27 at 4:26 PM UTC

   #24
   Japan-Is-Eternal Naturally Camouflaged
   I'm getting video now ... that's weird
   
   I wonder what was up
5. 2019-10-27 at 5:02 PM UTC

   #25
   

   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]

   Originally posted by Japan-Is-Eternal I'm getting video now … that's weird
   
   I wonder what was up

   
   The most usual cause of intermittent device service is usually a loose or broken connection of some sort, or a crack in the solder somewhere in the box.
6. 2019-10-27 at 5:05 PM UTC

   #26
   Japan-Is-Eternal Naturally Camouflaged
   I checked the connections to the motherboard and everything appeared to be fine
   the psu is relatively "new" and hasn't seen much use so it shouldn't be dying on me
   one thing that is odd though is when I power it on it'll turn on for a second and then power off and then power back on and stay on
   
   hmm
7. 2019-10-27 at 5:05 PM UTC

   #27
   

   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
   Could be a power supply issue.
8. 2019-10-27 at 5:58 PM UTC

   #28
   AngryIVer African Astronaut [my jade controlled morrigan]
   It defaulted to onboard. I've had this issue before and it's a pain in the ass to deal with. Kinda stoned/sleepy, but spectral is half ass right. CMOS battery ran down and reset the settings
9. 2019-10-27 at 6 PM UTC

   #29
   

   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]

   Originally posted by AngryIVer It defaulted to onboard. I've had this issue before and it's a pain in the ass to deal with. Kinda stoned/sleepy, but spectral is half ass right. CMOS battery ran down and reset the settings

   
   But then how would it set back by itself intermittently?
10. 2019-10-27 at 6:09 PM UTC

    #30
    Japan-Is-Eternal Naturally Camouflaged
    It's amazing how smooth and fast this pc runs win10
    the cpu is from 2007 and the gpu is a radeon card from 2008
    If all I wanted to do was basic computing stuff this pc would last me another decade or more.
11. 2019-10-27 at 6:37 PM UTC

    #31
    Japan-Is-Eternal Naturally Camouflaged
    aaaand now it's back to not giving me any video
12. 2019-10-27 at 6:39 PM UTC

    #32
    Japan-Is-Eternal Naturally Camouflaged
    Would it be worth it to try and buy a new cmos battery?
    
    Right before I turned it off the last time I tried routing video out through s-video to my crt and windows 10 froze, so I turned it off and now I'm back to the goddamn start with no video at boot.
13. 2019-10-27 at 6:40 PM UTC

    #33
    Japan-Is-Eternal Naturally Camouflaged
    It's pretty dated hardware, maybe I should just get an hdmi to component converter and use my laptop
14. 2019-10-27 at 6:42 PM UTC

    #34
    Japan-Is-Eternal Naturally Camouflaged
    this is odd though because earlier this year everything worked just fine
15. 2019-10-27 at 6:42 PM UTC

    #35
    too.dark.to.see Tuskegee Airman
    For general computing you can get really cheap laptops with like 1tb of storage.
16. 2019-10-27 at 6:48 PM UTC

    #36
    Japan-Is-Eternal Naturally Camouflaged
    no the idea behind this was that I was going to use my old gaming desktop for retro emulation on a crt tv
17. 2019-10-27 at 7:08 PM UTC

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    Vitamin G African Astronaut

    Originally posted by Japan-Is-Eternal It's amazing how smooth and fast this pc runs win10
    the cpu is from 2007 and the gpu is a radeon card from 2008
    If all I wanted to do was basic computing stuff this pc would last me another decade or more.

    
    LOL yeah good look with that kiddo
18. 2019-10-27 at 7:18 PM UTC

    #38
    

    -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
    Obviously, the thing to try would be to NOT route the video out to auxiliary devices and see if the problem persists.
19. 2019-10-27 at 7:19 PM UTC

    #39
    Japan-Is-Eternal Naturally Camouflaged

    Originally posted by Vitamin G LOL yeah good look with that kiddo

    
    you don't even know anything about computers, kiddo.
20. 2019-10-27 at 7:20 PM UTC

    #40
    Japan-Is-Eternal Naturally Camouflaged

    Originally posted by -SpectraL Obviously, the thing to try would be to NOT route the video out to auxiliary devices and see if the problem persists.

    
    I don't even have any other video output and there isn't integrated graphics so I don't think that would be the issue.
    It's really weird, maybe it's a connection issue between the gpu and motherboard since when I had the computer on its side it would come on just fine but standing upwards I get no video.