Hi Tom,

When you say the video card doesn't work, do you mean there is nothing
at all when powered up? No POST or BIOS display messages? Or does it
typically get that far, then die out when Windows boots?

If the former, then I would suspect perhaps a bad power supply. A bad
supply can cause all sorts of funny things.

If the latter, then perhaps the system has a virus. Try running a virus
scan on it.

Russ Poffenberger
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Bitsky, Jr
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 6:39 AM
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> Subject: [PCBUILD] Suspect bad Motherboard
>
>
> Hello! This is my first post, so I apologize if I break any rules.
>
> Two days ago a customer dropped of his personal computer.
> This is a customer I do programming for, but he asked if I
> could take a look at his computer and verify that his video
> card had gone bad. He claimed that, for the past few months,
> his video card would simply die while he was working and he
> would need to restart. The restarts became more and more
> frequent until a few days ago, when the card wouldn't work at all.

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