Monitor reading 'no signal'
I've had my Aurora 7500 PC for just about a year. Never had many problems with it.. but just recently, I got two nasty blue screens with Hexes that I wrote down somewhere, and then one day I woke up to a boot that said my system.config (or something like that) was corrupted/deleted and windows cannot startup. SO! I used the system recovery CD on my PC and it was back to good ol' factory condition.
But the problems persisted! Firstly, I only had one piece of hardware that wasn't stock -
X-FI Fatal1ty soundcard. When I first used my Alienware PC after the system recovery, most 'noises' were subsituted with a beep from the PC tower. The same kind of beep that it makes once every time I booted it up for as long as I can remember. Seeing as how I couldn't find my software installation for creative, I just unplugged my soundcard and hoped that it would revert to my mobo soundcard (AC'97). It didn't, and when I looked at the control panel's sound and audio devices, everything was gray and unclickable! It didn't trouble me much, I just had to find the software, then all would be better! But then, I was greeted with a nasty memory of a power flop that annihilated my former PC. I began to occasionally lose signal to my PC when it was left on for an hour or two. I told myself it was just because I had my (new) Xbox360 running in the same power outlet, so I moved my Xbox to another outlet, and never ran it while the PC was on. Instead of recovering, my PC went to hell! Just yesterday, I tried to boot it up, saw the Alienware title screen, heard the cute beep from the tower, passed through the Windows loading screen, then... flop! The screen flickers twice, then changes to a different shade of black, and the monitor reads 'no signal'
Things I have done!
-moved whole PC to outlet far away
-checked inside PC (everything seems to be running, all the fans spinning at top notch speed!)
-checked to see if BIOS would run (it does)
-unplugged and replugged my X-FI card (doesn't seem to influence the power flop)
-cried (nahhhhh)
Specs-
ATI 1900XTX 512MB GPU
Dual core processor 2x2200 AMD (something.. )
2GIGs RAM
X-FI Fatal1ty (formerly AC'97)
Averages 40-49 Degrees Celsius
I can't check to see my hard drive, I just know that it's ty @ ~140Gigs of space and I have to (had to) spam-press the open button
AAAAAAAAAAAND now I have to go. Help!