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Monitor Problems!
Name: markol Date: July 9, 2007 at 10:04:38 Pacific OS: SP2 CPU/Ram: 512 MB Product: Home Edition
Comment:
i turned my computer on today, and it turned on fine. EXCEPT, the monitor button just flashed on and off, and the screen was just blank! i held the monitor button in to turn it off, then held it in to turn it on; the screen came up normally for a second, then went back to blinking on and off!
i had to switch to an older monitor, but this monitor is new, i just bought this computer a couple years ago!
is it asleep? if so, how do i fix it, this has never happened before?
Name: wanderer Date: July 9, 2007 at 10:26:29 Pacific
Reply:
if it works with a different monitor then you have a monitor problem. Go to the manufacturers web page and see what the warranty period is.
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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: July 9, 2007 at 10:48:03 Pacific
Reply:
What brand of monitor is it, and how are you connecting it to your PC? By that I mean, Analog or Digital connection.
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Response Number 3
Name: max00 Date: July 9, 2007 at 11:41:19 Pacific
Reply:
Excellent point by Jennifer! If you are connecting the new(?) (2 year old) monitor with the digital connector and the replacement monitor with the VGa connector, that would mean there is the 'possibility' that the DVI output of the graphics card is defective.
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Response Number 4
Name: markol Date: July 9, 2007 at 12:24:51 Pacific
Reply:
it's a dell, haha, does that help? and i plug it in digitally. i also hooked in the older one digitally.
i don't understand though, i purchased the computer two-three years ago, brand new, how could the monitor just do this to me! i never did anything wrong to it!
thanks
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Response Number 5
Name: max00 Date: July 9, 2007 at 12:28:10 Pacific
Reply:
There are some perverted monitors in this world. We just have to try and avoid them.
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Response Number 6
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: July 9, 2007 at 20:28:59 Pacific
Reply:
My guess is you accidentally pressed the monitor button that changed the display from Digital to Analog.
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