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Blank Screen. What's Fucked? 
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O'cram has already fucked the PC i gave to him.

Basically, the monitor wont show anything when you switch the PC on.

I replaced the monitor to see if his monitor was dead, it's not. I got the same problem with my monitor on his PC.

I got him to buy a new graphics card. Same deal. Same black screen.

The PC does actually switch on. The monitor won't show anything. Not even a white blinking cursor.

I'm thinking the motherboard could be fucked.

Any clues?

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Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:25 am
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Bizarre. Judging by what you said, best I can think of is either mobo or HD. Does it sound like it's actually booting up, ie loading windows and stuff? Or does it just go "on" without much more?

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Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:42 am
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Put his GPU into your own rig and see if it works. If it works, take your PSU and put it in his rig and see if it makes a difference. It could be that the PSU is on its way out.

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yup, exactly what Peltz said.. start switching parts out to isolate what's broken. It's the only way to figure out what's going on. Is the PC posting? Assuming it made a beep when you turned it on before, is it doing it now? If not, anything from the RAM to the CPU to the PSU to the graphics card to the motherboard could be bad. Also, be sure to switch out the graphics cable if you haven't tried that... would suck if it was something like a bent pin.

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Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:29 am
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Ya, I once had a bent pin which caused everything to go yellow. I nearly troubleshooted it to brain damage.

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Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:13 pm
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/me waits for Satis to go grammar nazi on Peltz' ass (btw Peltz, re: your steam review of the Warhammer game, it's mediocrity. Mediocracy would be a government form, I think!)

Also this problem has been helped, I'm sure Derf will write a short bit about O'Cram's utter n00biness.

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Haha, i fixed the Warhammer wording. As for my post above, i don't really give a shit :D.

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Turnout out to be the monitor. Doesn't make sense to be because I tried mine and it also didn't work.

Ah well, that's O'cram for ya.

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