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computer won't turn monitor on
Name: Josh Brinkley Date: February 4, 2003 at 08:35:55 Pacific OS: win98 se CPU/Ram: pII/128
Comment:
computer will come on but it won't turn on the monitor, i know the monitor works and the monitor is on, it is an agp video card and i've tried new agp and pci cards. its a new motherboard and i've tried another new motherboard just like it. any solutions?
Name: Boniferd Date: February 4, 2003 at 09:55:05 Pacific
Reply:
I had this problem just yesterday. I did these things - 1. switched monitors - still black 2. took out CD's in drive 3. shut off 'puter, unplugged my modem and re-started - monitor came on. plugged my modem back in - still ok so far.
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Response Number 2
Name: Josh Brinkley Date: February 4, 2003 at 10:17:33 Pacific
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i haven't tried unplugging the cd rom but as far as other cards, i only have the video card in. that is the only pci or isa card in the computer, well actually the card is agp. i'll try the cdrom next.
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Response Number 3
Name: MindsEye Date: February 4, 2003 at 11:10:53 Pacific
Reply:
Just a thought ... you might want to try swapping out the power supply. I had a computer do this to me a couple of months ago.
HTH
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Response Number 4
Name: Warlock Date: February 4, 2003 at 11:54:47 Pacific
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Check device manager for 2 monitors. I once put in a new graphics card and installed the drivers everything was Ok. Then I installed the tools that came with the card and the screen went black. When I went into safe mode I had 2 monitors I removed 1 it still came back after a reboot. UnIstalled the tools and removed 1 monitor out of device manager then everything was ok again.
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Response Number 5
Name: johnoh Date: February 4, 2003 at 14:30:08 Pacific
Reply:
If the mobo has an integrated video adapter you may have to disable it in the bios to get your card to work.
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