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Failure in video system
Sometimes, instead of shutting down the entire system on my bedroom computer, which is attached to an HDTV, I just shutoff the TV, leaving the computer running. That normally works fine, but last night it didn't. When I turned on the TV, instead of returning to a normal display of the desktop, all that I got were audio and video static.
It was late and I didn't feel like messing with it, so I shutdown both the TV and computer. When I just turned them back on, the moment that I touched the power switch on the computer, I got 1 long and 2 short BIOS beeps, which I found were for the problem of the thread title, and the description was
However, it continued to desktop, and the TV is displaying it as always. Is this a problem with the video card or just some kind of fluke?An error was encountered in the video BIOS ROM, or a horizontal retrace failure has been encountered