That is a strange subject line, I know, so here's what I'm trying to ask. I'm trying to debug the problem caused yesterday, which I didn't witness, while my family was home with my Vista Ultimate 64-bit machine. They said that it repeatedly reboots itself.
Well, I finally have a chance to work on it, and I am finding that it does
not repeatedly reboot itself. Instead, what's going on is the monitor doesn't display anything at all. The machine is on, but nothing is displayed. Including nothing at all from the BIOS coming up or anything like that. (THis is not what I was told,
but never mind that.)
So, I would like to be able to switch out the monitor and keyboard, and see what's going on, but I would also like to do that in a gentle way, so that I don't abruptly close the system down by turning off the power. I know that it is possible, from the keyboard,
or the power switch, or something like that, to shutdown Vista in an orderly way. But I cannot remember how that is done.
Would someone please tell me how that is done.
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Doctor Who
Picture is of Tom Baker, who played the Doctor, from 1974 to 1980.
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CannotResolveSymbol
Microsoft: Who do you want to execute today?
Most computers will shut down properly if you press the power button once (don't hold it, as that will force the system to power off).
Of course, if the video card's dead (or motherboard, or any other component), the system won't boot. In that case, you obviously won't be able to shut it down cleanly (as Windows isn't started). -
ZippyV
Fired Up
Try another videocard. I think it's broken.
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DCMonkey
What?!?
Win+R
shutdown -s -
If you cannot see the BIOS output then I would agree that it is a hardware problem (not necessarily the video card since you don't actually need one)
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