Just FYI, the only bad part was the motherboard.  Changed that, using all
the original components and everything worked fine.  Turns out the system
was hanging, but usually when there was a change to video which caused the
screen to be blank.  Windows complained about the hardware change, but
eventually it got over it.  Thanks for the suggestions!
Ron Jobe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Jobe" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 9:09 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Loss of Video


> I've got a home-made system that suddenly is losing its video.  When cold,
> the system will boot up to the Windows 98 splash screen and then reboot.
> Sometime on the reboot, the video signal quits.  The monitor light changes
> from green to yellow (as if the system was powered off).  The computer has
> been running fine for the last several months, until this occurred.  The
> monitor, an older NEC E1100, is known good.
>
> I've checked to make sure all the fans are running.  I've tried the video
> card and memory in another system and they work fine.  I attempted to
> install the CPU in another system, but the heat sink wouldn't fit into my
> other computer.  I've tried changing the AGP video card for a PCI.  I've
> replaced the CPU, memory and video card in this system (one at a time and
> all together) and the problem persists.
>
> Changing the power supply helped.  I was able to get up to a protection
> exception, or a Windows error msg depending on which reboot and the
> placement of the sun, moon and stars.  I decided I needed to reload
Windows,
> but can't keep the video active long enough to do that.

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