Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 12:37 PM 28/09/2007, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Have you tried swapping video cables?
Well, the first thing I did was swamp the video cable at the back of
the PC, as they are the easiest thing to reach and deal with. I ended
up with the same result on the same monitor. Do you think eliminates
the cable question? Actually, I'm using the exam same cables I was
using the old main PC....I just moved that PC out and the new one in :)
I'm not sure - let me spell this out so that I can be sure I
understand what you did to diagnose:
Is this what you did so far?
VGA/DVI plug 1 ---- cable 1 ----> Monitor 1
VGA/DVI plug 2 ---- cable 2 ----> Monitor 2 (monitor flashes)
VGA/DVI plug 1 ---- cable 2 ----> Monitor 1
VGA/DVI plug 2 ---- cable 1 ----> Monitor 2 (monitor flashes)
(This would prove the cable isn't the problem.)
Yes, what's listed above is what I did.
VGA/DVI plug 2 ---- cable 1 ----> Monitor 1
VGA/DVI plug 1 ---- cable 2 ----> Monitor 2 (monitor flashes)
(This would prove the plug on the video card isn't the problem.)
I guess you could try swapping the power cables, just for the heck of it.
This would be easy to do, so I shall.
If still no luck, you might try a BIOS update for the video card
and/or the motherboard. Or check to make sure you have sufficient
power to run the new video card.
There is one for the mobo...I guess I check into that. Thanks.
