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Blank desktop computer screen on start-up.


Question Posted Saturday April 7 2012, 2:50 pm

First off, let me just say that I got the actual computer last summer *previous one crashed) and my computer monitor is from about 2008.

For the past month or so, every once in awhile my computer screen would be blank on start-up or would freeze before I could attempt to type my password. Usually I could fi this by restarting once or twice.

Just now, I've been fighting with my desktop for about an hour to start up. I press the power button, it beeps a couple times, and it stays at a black screen. In the bottom right corner is briefly shows the number 98 and then it changes to B4 and the B4 stays there. Nothing else. I've been trying to repeatedly press F8 to start Safe Mode but I'm not having any luck.

Does anybody know what the issue could be? Do I maybe just need a new computer moitor or is my computer istelf the issue? I ran a virus scan on it a few days ago and it said their weren't any viruses.


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Additional info, added Saturday April 7 2012, 5:26 pm:
I was finally able to press F8 and do a start up repair. My desktop is now working, but I would like to prevent this from happening again. How can i do that?.

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BellasFAN answered Sunday April 8 2012, 7:01 pm:
Hey,
if you have no viruses then some thing could of happened to your monitor,like if you put a magnet to close to the monitored it will fry your monitor. your computer pretty new so you would of had to spill something on it or you got a bad computer {if it wasn't new} there are a lot of things that could of happened. so my number one advice is get some one to check it out. they can tell you some times with in an hour what want wrong. some times it takes a day its a give or take, but they can help you figure it out way faster.
hope this helps!!!
i hope its not the computer that is ruined

Bellas #1Fan

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