[SOLVED] monitor stuck in standby/hibernate/Idon'tknow

Groveinator · 11-04-2009, 05:51 PM

so one day i decide my graphics card needs an upgrade, so i take it to the shop and they install it. a year or so later i get a message from steam telling me to update my video drivers to play L4D2, so i update the drivers. no problems for about two days until my computer crashes and i reboot it. after i turn it on again, the monitor doesn't turn on with the computer. it just shows the yellow ring that means it's in standby. i wait half an hour and try again and everything works perfect. after another couple of incidents like that, my brother shuts my computer completely off and now it absolutely REFUSES to recognize the monitor is there... i've been waiting for hours and trying every so often while looking around the internet for a solution but nothing works... help plz?

info about comp:
make: emachines H6535
processor: amd athlon 64 3500+
graphics card: ASUS (can't find number... O.o)

**grimx133** · 11-04-2009, 07:44 PM

Try clearing your cmos. Unplug from the wall, take out the coin cell battery on the motherboard for half an hour or so, then put it back in and try again. If you get a post, try going into safe mode, see how that works.

The big question though, what did you upgrade the power supply to when you had a video card put in? Make, model, wattage, and output in amps. And you really do need to find out what that card is, you can check that when you take the cover off to look at the power supply, you need to physically look at it, there is no software that will tell you what that psu is.

Groveinator · 11-05-2009, 07:56 AM

huh... oddest thing just happened. the same brother that made it stop working came in, turned it on and it worked again lol. now i can shut it down and start it up perfectly again. in fact i'm using my computer right now

thanks for trying to help anyways

11-04-2009, 05:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
Groveinator Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Lougheed, AB Posts: 4 OS: Windows XP	[SOLVED] monitor stuck in standby/hibernate/Idon'tknow so one day i decide my graphics card needs an upgrade, so i take it to the shop and they install it. a year or so later i get a message from steam telling me to update my video drivers to play L4D2, so i update the drivers. no problems for about two days until my computer crashes and i reboot it. after i turn it on again, the monitor doesn't turn on with the computer. it just shows the yellow ring that means it's in standby. i wait half an hour and try again and everything works perfect. after another couple of incidents like that, my brother shuts my computer completely off and now it absolutely REFUSES to recognize the monitor is there... i've been waiting for hours and trying every so often while looking around the internet for a solution but nothing works... help plz? info about comp: make: emachines H6535 processor: amd athlon 64 3500+ graphics card: ASUS (can't find number... O.o) Last edited by Groveinator; 11-04-2009 at 05:53 PM.

11-04-2009, 07:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
grimx133 Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Canada eh Posts: 3,138 OS: xp mce sp2, xp pro sp2, windows 7 beta My System	Re: monitor stuck in standby/hibernate/Idon'tknow Try clearing your cmos. Unplug from the wall, take out the coin cell battery on the motherboard for half an hour or so, then put it back in and try again. If you get a post, try going into safe mode, see how that works. The big question though, what did you upgrade the power supply to when you had a video card put in? Make, model, wattage, and output in amps. And you really do need to find out what that card is, you can check that when you take the cover off to look at the power supply, you need to physically look at it, there is no software that will tell you what that psu is. __________________

11-05-2009, 07:56 AM	#3 (permalink)
Groveinator Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Lougheed, AB Posts: 4 OS: Windows XP	Re: monitor stuck in standby/hibernate/Idon'tknow huh... oddest thing just happened. the same brother that made it stop working came in, turned it on and it worked again lol. now i can shut it down and start it up perfectly again. in fact i'm using my computer right now thanks for trying to help anyways