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I have an old Dell computer.
The screen started going blank because there was no signal and my usb mouse turned off both after about 30 seconds.
Then I turned it off completely, and the computer won’t even turn back on. Then I unplugged it and plugged it back in. The computer then gets to the point I got it to the first time, and then I have to unplug it and plug it back in to get to the same point.
I tested the hard drive by unplugging it and used a linux live CD. The same problem occurred, so I’m sure it’s not the hard drive.
A computer technician told me that the problem is the video card.
If it is, I need a way to fix the card because it’s part of the motherboard. It’s not something that can be removed.
I know that a video card has ports for the monitor and other components attached to it, and those ports are attached directly to the motherboard.

Thanks For Your Help
I don’t use Windows on that computer. I use Fedora 10 (a Linux distro)
I can’t access anything on the computer that involves turning it on.
The video card, as I said before, is part of the motherboard.

It has nothing to do with the CD’s, I tried them on other computers, they worked fine. But I can’t get it to load on this dell computer…it just boots straight into Windows when I put the restart the computer with the CD in. I’ve also tried different version of Linux, none work.

It has nothing to do with the CD’s, I tried them on other computers, they worked fine. But I can’t get it to load on this dell computer…it just boots straight into Windows when I put the restart the computer with the CD in. I’ve also tried different version of Linux, none work.

I tried to troubleshoot a Dell computer with the Windows XP media center edition. Windows appears to be starting up, but it reaches the welcome screen and stays there. I tried booting from a Symantec recovery disc from a Norton Systemworks Premier package in hopes of restoring the most recent settings, but the software couldn’t see the hard drive. I tried to repair the installation with a Windows XP OS CD, but it didn’t seem to see the hard drive, either. I thought I could at least leave an Ubuntu Linux live CD so the owner could access the Internet, and after it loaded, it could see the hard drive. I tried to click on the main partition, and the following error message was displayed:

Cannot mount volume.
Unable to mount the volume.
Details
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0,0) Failed to mount ‘/dev/sda2′: Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use.

There was more, but I’m running out of space. Is there any way to get back into Windows as it was?

i got slax…