2008-11-26, 12:19 PM
When you say it made normal boot up sounds, do you mean you heard it booting into windows? You heard the chime?
Also when your screen was black, did it have black lighting? or was just power off black (different from the display showing the colour black).
Your motherboard doens't SPIN, the only moving parts in your computer are your DVD/CD drives and harddrives...and fans.
If it was a ram problem, when you turn on your computer you shouldn't even see the red "Toshba" when you turn on the computer, just power on black.
It could be a problem between the connection of your monitor to the video card, in this case you should see power off black.
You can also try starting the computer with just one of the two 1GB sticks and see if it solves any problems.
Running a memory test on your ram sticks could also help to determine if they're faulty or not.
I don't think RAM gets "stuck"
Also when your screen was black, did it have black lighting? or was just power off black (different from the display showing the colour black).
Your motherboard doens't SPIN, the only moving parts in your computer are your DVD/CD drives and harddrives...and fans.
If it was a ram problem, when you turn on your computer you shouldn't even see the red "Toshba" when you turn on the computer, just power on black.
It could be a problem between the connection of your monitor to the video card, in this case you should see power off black.
You can also try starting the computer with just one of the two 1GB sticks and see if it solves any problems.
Running a memory test on your ram sticks could also help to determine if they're faulty or not.
I don't think RAM gets "stuck"