My 24" Soyo LCD (DVI connection) doesn't turn on until XP has loaded and presented me with a button to log on, so I tried hooking up an old CRT via the VGA plug.

The problem? There was a corrupt file in the /windows/system directory. I booted from the XP Pro CD, ran the recovery console, and boom, the system is fine now.

One nice thing is that I found out my second PC3200 DIMM was bad. That explains why my system would reboot at times for no apparent reason.


> My desktop went tits up today and I'm trying to figure out what went bad.
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> I was watching a flash video when the system turned itself off and rebooted.
> Ever since it hasn't worked right. The computer will turn on (fans come on, the
> system beeps, the HD drive light flickers a few times), but it won't boot and my
> LCD screen keeps saying "No Signal". I tried swapping out the graphics card,
> but that didn't seem to make any difference.
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> Could it be the hard drive?
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