no display while booting

gmoney · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:30 pm Post subject: no display while booting

im trying to help a friend out online he says he has no display while booting.. using a 9200 and a hp mx50 monitor .... any idea... im not sure but i think it is a hp computer.. .

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PUTALE · SirTweaksabit Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 361

when you said no image, are you saying that the system boots and will go into windows (ie the hd winn spin and you hear the normal booting sounds) or nothing as if the system is dead. If it's the first case, then either teh monitor died or the graphic card, if it's the altter, then it's the cpu or mobo.

gmoney · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:30 am Post subject:

no like no display until he reaches his welcome screen

PUTALE · SirTweaksabit Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 361

so the system is fine, it's just that the screen is blank during boot. Well, does he have quiet boot/quick boot, etc, whatever the option under bios to allow system to boot faster enabled? or remove teh boot screen under bios. Sometimes system will do such thing if these options are selected.

gmoney · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:17 am Post subject:

alrite.. i will check with him for those such settings.. if not i will post back asap

fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Many times, "off the shelf" computer makers (HP, Compaq, Sony, etc) purposely set the BIOS to show either a custom screen, or a blank screen, to prevent users from figuring out how to get into the BIOS and potentially screw things up.

My favorite story is about a friend, who, after researching how to get into his Compaq BIOS (but nothing else, mind you), reset his boot order. His reasoning......"It gave me options for HDD 0 or HDD 1, and since I had 1 hard drive, I figured that was the right one......." meaning, he reset his machine so it wouldn't boot from his lone hard drive.

Two hours driving time, one way, and I had it fixed for him, since he couldn't remember HOW to get into the BIOS again, and I didn't trust him to do it himself properly.

The majority of people have no business messing around in there, so your store-bought computers generally hide the screen that tells you how to get into it.
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gmoney · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:31 am Post subject:

lol.. sux0r to the extreme.. ahaha..

but yeah i was thinking that becuz it was an hp... that it was like that for a reason... i'll tell him that.. see what he has to say.... eh heh

PUTALE · SirTweaksabit Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 361

I think if you want to show something on screen, you can either change in bios or change the jumper (from normal to setting, then you may see all the system info during boot.