Fun right? When a computer has no apparent errors or issues, but you just cannot figure out what is wrong?
Well that’s the issue here. I suspect the BIOS has somehow been corrupted, however the Windows XP Home installation seems to be working.
I suspect it is an error with the graphical output with the device. It turns on fine, power is working as it should at every part of the system. However it does not post, no display output whatsoever. No boot splash, no bios errors, not even my sad little friend, the flashing underscore. I don’t even get a BSOD, which is good and bad at the same time.
Power to both the FDD and DVD drives, including the only HDD drive included within the computer is working fine too. They all spin up well enough. Using a NVIDIA Quadro K2000, the fans turn on, but still no output. I would’ve expected the BIOS or Windows XP to have either enabled Safe Mode with a generic driver, or just boot with a generic gpu driver which lower colour, resolution, etc so that I could fix it.
Isn’t life wonderful? I’ll post any updates I have here, if any.