Hi, i offerd to fix my uncles computer yesterday. i reformated it and thing's didn't go well and resulted in a loop of booting to the windows logo and restarting on itself. i unplugged the tower and braught it back to my house and pluged everything in to my monitor and then found that it wasn't apearing on my screen. so i unplugged the VGA cable and plugged it back in a few times and it came on and showed the pc to be restarting. i took out the hard-drive and placed it in my other computer and reformated it took it out and placed it back in it's own tower. when i pluged everything back into it and the VGA cable, the computer started up but no picture apeard on the monitor. all night long i have been pulling the VGA cable in and out and yet still no picture. the computer isn't re-starting so i guess that's fixed now. it's just the monitor not picking the picture up. and yes the picture does pick my own desktop computer. i have no idea what my uncles computer is or whats inside it. only that it has intel pentium 4..... yeah all the labels seem to have been striped and i can't check on the computer because obviously i can't see it. need the pc fixed by tonight. so any help would be very much apreciated. sorry for spelling. i been up all night trying to fix this thing.
Try reseating the video card, in his computer. Are you saying the computer actually boots up into Windows?
The first issue sounds regarding restarting sounds to be a hard drive issue. The current issue with no display sounds like a video issue which if it is an integrated video on the motherboard could mean a faulty motherboard.
GrandpaBW - Yeah it booted up to the windows logo then restarted. as for reseting the video card, i can't see any images on the monitor. so how would i go abour doing that? mrman - Yeah i thought that too at first. but when i first plugged in my monitor to it. it wouldn't show up any image. after a few restarts and messing around unplugging the VGA in and out, it came on. i thought the second time would be the same problem. Another problem i... well, my uncle now has is that my uncle isn't too bright. and baught this computer and used it with someone elses infomation and virus infected files on it, from a store called Cash Convertors. and for £300/$580 too. and he can't take it back. =/ he's not too bright.
