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Boot TS - Video Displayed

Explanation: There is some sort of video output to the screen during the boot.

Diagnosis: The video subsystem is working, at least enough to permit simple text display.

Recommendation: The first thing displayed on the screen should be the message produced by the video BIOS on your video card. The name of the video card and possibly some other information such as how much video RAM is on the card, should appear on the screen for a few seconds. Check for this message: what do you see?

Note: Newer BIOSes boot up very quickly and it seems that newer monitors are ridiculously slow about starting up from their idle state when the system boots. The combination of these two means that you may miss the video BIOS message. If this happens, but the boot continues on, assume that the message displayed and then was cleared as the boot progressed. You may want, if possible, to try booting using an older monitor which will show you everything that is displayed on the screen as you boot. Otherwise, if your monitor is very slow, it can be hard to diagnose problems at boot time.

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