I couldn’t wait to play Black Mesa after waiting so long for it’s release.
Installed it and started playing it.
Then this happened:
After force reboot, my LCD monitor displays nothing. I don’t even see the BIOS flash screen on boot up.
Black Mesa fried my video card 
Are you sure it’s not because there’s something wrong with your monitor?
No … this looks like indeed a bad videocard… Some of the render pipelines are blown up…
This is NOT caused by BlackMesa, just by faulty hardware… Installing any other game running with the BlackMesa quality graphics should have caused the same problem… And … a new good videocard is there for around 160 euro’s already… (Owning computer related store, see a LOT of these problems through the year)
Andwan0, what are your system specs?
at least your computer can run. I got the Crowbar in UC Just before my Power Supply decided to have a Meltdown.
And this!
OP, post your system specs.
Sorry guys forgot to mention that this is a LAPTOP.
Dell Vostro 1400:
Intel Core 2 Duo T5470 / 1.6 GHz
Mobile Intel GM965 Express
Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
A few years ago I had dropped the laptop and it’s never been the same. It looks perfectly fine, but it always has slow-downs or jutting freezes & resumes (during Windows XP environment). Here’s a comparison from memory:
Before drop
Windows XP SP2 runs smooth
Games load fast and run smooth (Half-Life 2, etc).
I even completely Half-Life 2 with this laptop fine.
After drop
Windows XP SP2 has frequent freeze/resumes
Windows XP is slower and has more HDD activity
Games load slower and has frequent freeze/resumes
I’d always thought it was CPU may have come loose. But after running Black Mesa, I get black/blank LCD display now (after the garbled crash).
Looking at the “After drop” issues, it appears that the graphics card may not be the only concern…
It seems that your hard drive (HDD) was damaged previously (after the drop) - that would explain the increased loading (and access) times, more hard drive activity, ecetera.
Perhaps the drop has (partially) damaged some of the mechanical parts inside the HDD?
It could very well be the case, that now both the graphics card and the hard drive are damaged / defective - or either one of them.
If you know how, try to remove the hard drive from the laptop and connect it to another computer via an IDE to USB - or SATA to USB - Adapter (depending on which of the two connectors the HDD uses), just to get your files off of it and store them safely (on another external hard drive or DVDs, for example).
Well, the G-Man said to prepare for unforseen consequences… clearly you didn’t. 
Anyway, seemed your system was crappy to begin with (after that drop) so I’d suggest you just get yourself a new laptop.
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