Help! Black screen?

[mrbashfo]

Hi, I am having trouble reinstalling os changing os and stuff did not help my situation! Tried 2 different cards the display stays black after windows starting screen. Tried linuxcoin and after the nice picture and few words screeen stays black also! I can press caps lock and the light goes on and off so its not completely frozen...

[Bananington]

Hi, I am having trouble reinstalling os changing os and stuff did not help my situation! Tried 2 different cards the display stays black after windows starting screen. Tried linuxcoin and after the nice picture and few words screeen stays black also! I can press caps lock and the light goes on and off so its not completely frozen...

Hmmms. If you have an onboard video card, I would connect your monitor to that. Then get the OS installed and the driver for your internal Video Card installed. Then plug your monitor into the internal video card.

Does that help?

[silverchair]

Yeah, probably it would be on the video card.

[0zymandias]

Yeah, first thing to do is hook into the onboard card if you have one.  Or use a spare card if you have one lying around.  Always try to isolate the problem.