Well if the computer is giving you a windows error than it has obviously already booted into windows. See if you cant tone down your resolution. Also check the VGA cable.
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Yes, dondante is correct…
go into “Safe Mode” and change your resolution to 600×800 and reboot…
If that doesn’t work…
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Tonight I setup an old windows computer I have used in about a year. When I turn it on I get a message that starts out “if you can read this message, windows has” something about my monitor. This is the same monitor I have always used with this computer but I am stuck on this black screen and I can not get it to go away. I have tried booting in safe mode and got nothing. Nothing has happened to the computer or anything in the last year and it worked before. Help please.
This is exactly what it says.
Copyright 1999 Intel corp all rights reserved
If you can read this message, windows has successfully initialized this display adapter.
To use this adapter as part of your windows desktop, open the display option in control panel and adjust the settings on the settings tab.
This is a black screen and I can not get anything to work.
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Have you changed the display card or has someone swapped out your display
card?
A black DOS prompt? If so than it doesn’t sound like Windows. If you hooked it up to your network when you set it up Windows could have pulled video driver updates for you and ****ed it up.
Play with your monitor a bit…adjust the settings on the monitor itself.
You should have a reset button on your monitor…press that button while
your computer is on and should have windows displayed.
This computer has not been on the internet in 3 years has been used only for games. has never been on a network and has not had any changes since it was last used, and it worked great then.
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Do you know how to go into CMOS and check if the battery is good?
no I have no idea can you help with that?
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resolution is set at 720×400 now and I cant figure out how to mess with anything but brightness or contrast.
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CMOS is a battery on your motherboard that keeps track of time. I wouldn’t think it is your issue.
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Ooh! that’s tough! I’m about to turn in for the night. What Windows are you working with? Also, before going there…do you have another monitor that you can connect
to your desktop? You can use your laptop monitor to see if the problem is in your
desktop or monitor. Also, you didn’t really say, “No I haven’t changed my video
card or know if someone has or not.”
Well if you open the case you will see the battery somewhere on the motherboard. I should be a small circular lithium-ion battery. There should be an LED off it, if it is on than it has power. Your machine could look differently this has just been my experience. To me your issue sounds like video driver or setting issue. What it is specifically I couldn’t say. You could try to find some kind of a bootable CD if safe mode won’t work.
I think safe mode works because he was able to change the resolution. I am thinking
that the computer must be Win98 or 95. I forgot how to get to the Bio’s. I think
it’s F1 during boot up? I agree with you dondante it sounds like a setting issue
to me also….
when I hold f8 for safe mode all I get is a long beep sound and it does nothing. I have seen the battery, as for a reboot cd I don’t want to loose any of my info or programs. is there a way around that with the reboot cd?
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L.O.L!!! OH NO!!! THE M.E. HAS STRUCK AGAIN!!!
How were you able to change the resolution before….had your computer work earlier
and you’ve changed the resolution and now it’s blank space or black screen now?
(very important)
Windows ME…that is your problem right there. I am not going to lie to you, that operating system was the worst one ever put out by Microsoft, I would rather run 3.1 than ME. I would say you will be lucky to fix it on an old computer with ME, it is time to kill it or run your games from DOS.
I never changed my resolution before. It did work a year ago and nothing seriously has been changed since. The only reason I need this computer up is to get info off of it. Then it can get tossed out.
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Pull the hard drive and put it in a friends machine…only thing you can do…ME has got your data by the bytes!
can i pull the hard drive and just stick it in another computer and try it or do I have to do a bunch of funky s*** to get it to go?
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Ok………sounds like your cmos battery died!I would take it to a computer
repair shop and ask them to give you a courtesy check of the cmos battery.
Keep an eye on your computer…..do you have a Fry’s Electronic Store near
you?
I can try to pull one out of another computer I have sitting around home if they are all the same.
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No it is a hard drive. It isn’t SATA most likely so almost any machine should be able to read it if you can hook it in right.
what would I gain by putting a hard drive that will not boot into another computer, wouldn’t it give the same problem. not to mention I would not have any drivers for any components of the other computer on this hard drive.
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Stand-by Pat…
I’m going to get you a link where you can buy a couple pieces of equipment
that will extract your data from your hard drive for you.
I have to look it up in my bookmarks.
….I still recommend checking that battery first. Even if you
take it out and measure it with a power meter
Oops! I gave you the link for a Laptop…correcting one moment!
Ok there you go: http://www.bixnet.com/eziidatrba.html
Be sure to call them and let them know that you’re copying from
a stand alone hard drive to a different computer so that the
correct product will be shipped to you. (stand alones are placed
in a case powered by the computer that the files are going to)
what does windows protection error you must restart your computer.
System halted mean?
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It means that windows stoped running because there is a problem in the system and you need to reinstall which ever version your using. If it is an older model F4 or F5 is safe mode. Hope this helps. :-)
the reason I ask is thats what keeps coming up now. I opened the computer up to change the bat. and what an idiot I am. I had forgotten I put a new video card in a few years ago and I plugged the monitor into the old port. Wow what a moron. But now I am starting to remember why I quit using it.
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If I put the install disc in am I going to loose everything?
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somethings been changed and has interfered with the normal
start up of the system. This is why I had asked if anyone
fooled around with your computer. Something has changed, a newly
installed software that causes conflict or driver or card.
Something has changed. Your CMOS battery is fine. You’ve wouldn’t have
gotten that far if it wasn’t so discard the battery thing….
moron? naaaaa….me likes yawning alot…..good night!
thanks for all of your help everyone
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1 year, 11 months ago (9 hours, 29 minutes after post)
Ha ha. I see that you fund the problem before I could comment. I have seen this happen before don’t feel bad. It is a common problem with gamers that add a graphics accelerator and forget about the internal video processor. They go to move their computer and bang no video…
Have fun Ron
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