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Snograt · Apr 17, 2008, 04:54 AM // 04:54

Too much information ><

(That must be the first time anyone's said that in the tech forum...)

Roo Ella · Apr 17, 2008, 05:11 AM // 05:11

Also check the pins on the Monitor plug make sure non are lose or totally broken off and in the card
I had a similar thing to what you are explaining a pin had broken and was only just touching sometimes to make the contact.
Worth a shot anyway other than that Resolution is wrong or bad card sorry

king of killers · Apr 17, 2008, 06:09 AM // 06:09

its not resolution,over heated card or any of that i think the vid card just gave out on me but anyway how much does geeksquad cost? i might go clear the hard drive of limewire and traces of it...... so how much do you think?

Big John Thomas · Apr 17, 2008, 10:45 AM // 10:45

So it reaches the windows loading screen then goes black? Are you sure its not just windows failing to load.Try tapping f8 at startup and see if you can select last known good config.If you have a windows disc try booting from it and go to the recovery console and type "chkdsk" this might fix any boot error.

Pasha the Mighty · Apr 17, 2008, 03:41 PM // 15:41

have you tried a new cable?

fusa · Apr 17, 2008, 06:23 PM // 18:23

If its failing while loading windows its most likely an invalid resolution for the monitor. Try booting into safe mode or a monitor it works on. Then System->Run->Regedit

browse to HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG -> System -> CurrentControlSet -> Control -> Video and change DefaultSettings.YResolution to 600 DefaultSettings.XResolution to 800 and DefaultSettings.BitsPerPel to 16 and DefaultSettings.VRefresh to 60

If you're not comfortable with what you're doing you can back up the registry by selecting the root subkey and export in file menu.

GeekSquad are very incompetent people to work with, and highly over priced. I tried once to have a cpu tested, the base cost of any work they do is $90 and up. Only person I know of that did have them service a laptop had the laptop returned to them completely unusable. Most smaller independent computer stores are more reliable and more knowledgeable staff.