[Frank MetaMusil]

Originally Posted by MonsieurFish

Hi,

Yesterday morning, I was on my desktop computer, which is a dell dimension 3100, just playing music as I was getting ready to head to school, when all of a sudden the blue screen of death appeared. At the time, I thought nothing of it, as i've seen my fair share of that screen over the years, so I just shut down my computer and headed to school.

Now however, when I turn my computer on, all i get displayed on the monitor is a fuzzy screen, very similar to the screen you would get when you went to a channel you did not have on basic cable. I tried to phone dell, but since my warranty is up, I have to pay 50$ if i want them to talk to me, so I am scrapping that idea. Does anyone have any ideas on how i can check if this is in fact broken for good, or if I can fix it somehow?

I have tried hooking my monitor up to my laptop and the monitor worked fine so it is not the monitor that is broken. I also just tried starting the computer in safe mode, and now instead of the fuzzy screen, it's just black as if it never turned on.

Thanks

http://support.dell.com/support/edoc....htm#wp1124478

Go down to the section called Diagnostic Lights. That should help you isolate the issue.