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I cannot reboot my computer normally throught the Start -> Turn Off Computer -> Restart option. It causes my computer to shut down normally, but upon doing so it doesn't boot back up. However, the fans and mobo are still on inside my case, I'm simply left with nothing showing up on the monitor. I have to either force reboot it or power down, both of which work normally. Normal shutdown also works without problems - it's just restart that won't work.

I've already defragged my HDD and made sure my CPU is stable - so I don't think those two are causing the problems either.

The problem first came to my attention earlier today when I was prompted to restart after installing some new graphics drivers. However, I don't think they were the problem as I've already uninstalled them and reverted back to my old ones, but the problem still remains. I've been using this rig for almost a year now with nothing like this happening.

Any help regarding the problem is appreciated.

Thanks in advance :)
 
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Hi IchiCC,

Sounds like your monitor is not reseting correctly. The reboot option does not power off the monitor but I suspect the others do.

Try a reboot but when it is powering back up and the screen is blank, turn the monitor off, count to 10 and turn it back on again. Let us know what happens.

Might help if you give us details of monitor / graphics adapter etc
 
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Sorry been away. Surprised no one else has posted.

It must be the Geforce 8800GT not reseting or coming up in the wrong configuration do you have another graphics card to try?

Ive had a look at other posts on no sig issues with this card and there seems to be alot. Best seems to be http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/257924-33-help-gigabyte-8800-problem-signal-detected

There seems to be alot of issues out there about this card giving no signal at one point or another. From low power from the PSU or cleaning and reinstalling the driver or switching its output to the Svideo port.

But considering your problem occured when you updated the driver Id suggest get a hold of a driver cleaner program and clean the video driver off and reinstall the one that came with the card from the CD.

Let us know how you go.
 
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