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From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: display is blank - any idea ?
Date: 22 Apr 1997 16:27:19 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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Hello!

I realize, that this might be not the very best place to ask about this,
but probably somebody else had any similar experience.

I had my computer staying idle for a while (with Win95 running at that moment).
After a while it blanked the screen, and since that it never came up again.

I tried:
rebooting, unplugging everything...
I tried to use a different (CGA-ISA instead of VGA-PCI(Trident) ) card
and a different monitor....
I have NO image on any display at any time...

I am thinking it must be the motherboard (some chip died, or smth. similar),
but may be somebody has a clue what else can be tried ?

Thanks.

IgoR