Blank Screen at Start UP

[Guest]

Intermittently the screen reamins blank at start up. I then need to turn th
PC off an then on again. Sometimes the scrren come on sometimes it takes a
number of OFF/ON's. MAchine is also now starting to reboot by itself. Have
used Nortons to check for Virus's.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Boot to the XP setup CD, and press 'r' for recovery console, run the command : CHKDSK /R

 

[Guest]

I have run CHKDSK /R 'one bad sector which has been repaired..
Problem still exists.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

To repair all system files, go to Start/Run, and type: SFC /SCANNOW

 

[Chelsea]

Hello Geoff,
have you tried switching your monitor off then on. I have seen quite a few
monitors that are reluctant to come out of stand-by, I'll probably get
panned for saying this but iiyama models seem particular subject to this
problem.

Chelsea

 

[Guest]

Tried to run SFC /SCANNOW 3 times each time the process got to about a third
throught and the PC rebooted itself.
The same thing is happening when I runa virus scan from the F-secure web site!