troubleshooting basics question

[Tom Poe]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:17:40 -0600
> Tom Poe <tompoe at fngi.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Now, no boot, just a message, "no sync input".  Is that meaningful to 
>> anyone?
>>     
>
> Do you get any write-up on the screen right after power-on about your bios and
> whatnot?
>
> "no sync input" sounds like an internal message from your monitor saying that
> there is no signal from your video card.  Meaning that the card is shot or the
> cable is loose or something.
>
>   
I think that's a good suggestion about checking with video card issue.  
To replace the card, and try another, at bootup, is there anything to be 
done?  Or, does Kudzu recognize new card and prompt for whatever?  
Initially, it would show bootup in progress, before going "black", but 
now, nothing shows, until after some delay, the "no sync input" comes 
up.  My daughter said she heard a beep, like that when the session 
screen comes up, so we tried flying blind, getting to alt-ctl-f2, and 
entering: dmesg tail -50 | pr | lpr , but nothing happened.  At that 
point, she rebooted, and the delay, then the "no sync input" message showed.
Tom
Tom