Broken video card?

Hi. I have a relatively new PC (bought in May 2004) with XP home and a GeForce 5200 video card. Now I cannot get any signal from the video card, that is, all I get is a black screen. The actual PC does turn on, however.

I have scanned the hard drive on another machine and it looks fine so what is the problem? Is the video card broken? Shortly before the PC stopped working it was making loud noises from inside the case and I saw this message a couple of times: "BIOS ROM checksum error detecting floppy A drive media".

Thanks for any help.

 

Check and make sure all cards are seated fully in slots and all cables are seated fully. Pull the dime sized battery out of the mobo and wait bout a min or two before sticking the bat back in. This will clear cmos. If it boots then enter the bios and reset ya settings. Let us know.:>

 

Thanks for the quick reply. Will give it a go...

 

Great! I can see the screen now. However, I get "CMOS checksum error -defaults loaded. Warning! CPU has been changed or CPU Ratio changed fail. Please re-enter CPU settings in the CMOS setup and remember to save before quit!" What do I do now? how do I re-enter CPU settings? Thanks...

 

OK. I pressed F1 and got into the PC as normal. Thanks a lot. Writing this from the repaired PC...

 

What was? Buggered cmos need resetting or a loose card or cable?

:> Glad to hear ya got it fixed though and ya welcome.:>

 

I think the CMOS was shot as everything else was fine...

Thanks again...

 

Your very welcome. It seems to be a common thing with the cmos messing up. :>