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[Robert Goren]

my screen goes blank as soon as the desktop screen comes on when restarting. help

[wilderness]

Most of these issues were covered in a recent thread.

Computer (brand, model, OS, memory and more), monitor (brand and model) and video card stats (brand and model) would benefit greatly.

Did you recently add another software and/or OS update that could have caused this?

[senortout]

Try booting your computer in safe mode, safe mode with networking if you see that option, so you can check it out further. Is it a laptop? Could try moving the screen forward or backword a bit to see if that connection is poor...this happened to me on two laptops now. They are too old to invest money in so I just fuss with the screen until I get the sweet spot!

[Robert Goren]

the computer is a compaq presario about 5 years old. the monitor is 24 in hanspree. I don't know anything about the video cards. I know it time for new one, but this not good time for me to go shopping. no money, very bad health.

[wilderness]

"compaq presario"

What's the Presario model number?

[PaceAdvantage]

Do you actually see the windows desktop appear, and THEN everything goes blank...or do you only see the regular boot-up messages, and then nothing....

[Robert Goren]

Do you actually see the windows desktop appear, and THEN everything goes blank...or do you only see the regular boot-up messages, and then nothing....I actual see it for about a second, then it goes blank.

[Canarsie]

Do you see the boot up sequence before Windows starts up?

Here's a few on ebay that's less than $15 shipped to your door. A little hard without knowing the model number.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ATI-Rage-128-bit-Pro-Ultra-32MB-AGP-VGA-Video-Card-NEW-/130481465064?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item1e614d26e8


http://cgi.ebay.com/ATI-Rage-128-Pro-32MB-AGP-VGA-Video-Card-/370489408005?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item5642e3ba05

[bigmack]

Boot it up holding F8. Select VGA mode.

[PaceAdvantage]

What version of windows are you using?

Google desktop disappears after boot up

There seems to be quite a few pages with this problem...your solution might be found on one of them...

[Robert Goren]

windows XP. I tried it in safe mode. It goes blank there too. Is there any chance that it is the monitor?

[senortout]

windows XP. I tried it in safe mode. It goes blank there too. Is there any chance that it is the monitor?

It could be a setting on the monitor, yeah...mine will not display if it is set to analog, due to the fact that its plugged into digital. Vice-versa wouldn't work either.