Hey guys and gals!

I am working on an HP pavilion A600Y, Windows XP, 80Gb
Hard drive, 2.5GHz processor. The owner says that it
started yesterday with a blank screen. I was able to
duplicate this, so I will tell it from first person
point of view. I push the power button on the tower,
then the power on the monitor, to start it up. All
applicable lights come on, as well as the ethernet
light on the router. Before the icons can load on the
screen, I hear an electrical clicking sound from the
monitor, and it is blank. At the same time, there is
no ethernet light.

In my troubleshooting, I have first connected that
monitor to my laptop, it works perfectly. Tried a
different monitor connected to the same PC, and it,
too does not respond. Both monitors show a light
indicating a Power Save Mode. There are no beeps from
the PC.

I contacted HP, they covered all of the above items,
determined that the PC is out of warranty, by 2
months, and would not assist me anymore, and advised
me to contact a local PC tech for further
troubleshooting.

He suggested that it could be a loose connection on
the motherboard, or a faulty video card, but did not
address the ethernet issue. The video "card" is
onboard type, as well as the ethernet.

I want the list's advice before spending money that I
may not need to first. Would it do any good to
purchase a new video card and ethernet card? And if
so, how close to the original should it be? The
original was 256MB card. The owner is not a gamer;
just email and solitaire mostly. I have an ethernet
card already, but I wonder what a new, or even good
used, video card would run? I am not afraid to do
eBay! (LOL)

Thanks in Advance,

Amy Ledford





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