"philo" wrote in message
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On 09/27/2017 11:46 AM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
My computer has been booting fine and there's no picture sometimes.
I
restart it, sometimes several times. I will get words on the screen as
it's
booting that are "fuzzy". IMO I think the video chip is going. It's never
really acted that way til lately. It's 14 yo. I can expect something

Bill





Remove and re-seat the video cable as a starter.


Should that not do the trick...
if your machine has a video card, remove it and clean the contacts .


I usually clean contacts with a clean sheet of white paper.


If that does not work, replace or add a video card.

I do know on my old ATI xpress 200 chip the video memory is part of the
main DDRAM. There is no separate video memory on this machine.

Bill