Monitor Problems

I_Eat_Plastic · 10-12-2006, 06:43 PM

I recently had my hard-drive and cdrom drive replaced and reformatted, everything works except my monitor, which worked before, it's just some standard plug and play monitor, and idea how to get it working?

**PanamaGal** · 10-12-2006, 06:48 PM

I'm assuming you already checked to make sure all connections are tight. Have you unplugged it from the power source, and plugged it back in? Does the monitor respond at all, or is not even getting a signal? For a quick check you could try plugging in another computer, to make sure something didn't happen to the monitor. If it doesn't work on another working computer, then the monitor is bad. If it does, then you are likely having an issue with your graphics card, or your onboard graphics.

I_Eat_Plastic · 10-12-2006, 07:34 PM

I tried the monitor on other cpus, and vise versa, and it doesnt work, its probably my graphics card, any idea how to fix this?

**TheMatt** · 10-12-2006, 08:14 PM

If it doesn't work on other computers its probably a problem with the monitor. Have you tried different VGA or DVI cables?

**hwm54112** · 10-12-2006, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by I_Eat_Plastic

I tried the monitor on other cpus, and vise versa, and it doesnt work, its probably my graphics card, any idea how to fix this?

A clarification- if the above is true it has to be something else

Monitor doesn’t work on other cpus- monitor is bad

Other monitors don’t work on the cpu- has to be graphics card

Since both of the above can’t be true, unless the other cpu and monitor are also bad, the only possible common components are the vga cable or the power cable

10-12-2006, 06:43 PM	#1 (permalink)
I_Eat_Plastic Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2 OS: XP Home	Monitor Problems I recently had my hard-drive and cdrom drive replaced and reformatted, everything works except my monitor, which worked before, it's just some standard plug and play monitor, and idea how to get it working?

10-12-2006, 06:48 PM	#2 (permalink)
PanamaGal Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Panama Posts: 1,240 OS: WinXP Pro SP2; Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista Ultimate; Vista Business	I'm assuming you already checked to make sure all connections are tight. Have you unplugged it from the power source, and plugged it back in? Does the monitor respond at all, or is not even getting a signal? For a quick check you could try plugging in another computer, to make sure something didn't happen to the monitor. If it doesn't work on another working computer, then the monitor is bad. If it does, then you are likely having an issue with your graphics card, or your onboard graphics. __________________ It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

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10-12-2006, 07:34 PM	#3 (permalink)
I_Eat_Plastic Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2 OS: XP Home	I tried the monitor on other cpus, and vise versa, and it doesnt work, its probably my graphics card, any idea how to fix this?