Jonathan Wilson wrote: > On Friday 25 January 2008 10:44:07 D Henson wrote: >> I now get no display at all, not even the stuff you normally get when >> you boot the system. Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't any PC >> monitor display that stuff, regardless of whether or not a driver is >> installed? All that I do get is "No VGA Input" and "Monitor going to >> Sleep". This sounds like a hardware problem. I removed my existing card >> (GeForce 2) and installed a newer one (GeForce FX 5200). No display. >> Reinstalled the older card. Replaced VGA cable. No display. Removed >> power for 20 seconds & reconnected power. No display. Replaced monitor >> with known good monitor. No display. Now I'm really lost. >> >> Anybody have any suggestions on how to proceed? >> >> Don Henson > > Do you have a CRT or an LCD laptop?
LCD - HP V19? (I'm not at my desk.) > Please check to make sure the monitor's > settings haven't been corrupted. Just this week I had a friend call and say > his big 24" LCD monitor wasn't working anymore - no lights, no display. After > poking a lot of buttons I finally figured out that it had just lots it's > mind - was listening to the wrong input, was set to partial resolution, a > bunch of things. I assume a surge hit the monitor or something. I haven't done that but I will. > > You are saying, I take it, that you do not see even the BIOS messages > scrolling by when you first boot up. Correct, not even the splash screen announcing the motherboard model, etc. > That makes me wonder if the BIOs is set > to send it's output to something other than the AGP/PCIe port. Possible but the system has been working for years and has gone thru several upgrades. I would have thought that such a problem would have shown itself by now. > > Is there a built-in VGA on the mainboard that you are not using? If so, plug > your monitor into it and see if it's getting signal. If so you'll have to go > into the BIOS and tell the BIOS to use the AGP/PCIe port (it will probably be > an options called "Init Display First" No built-in that I know of but I'll double check. > > You might also need to clear your CMOS memory. How to do this depends on the > specific computer. Its usually done by moving a jumper temporarily. That appears to be okay. See next comment below. > > Is the computer turning on at all? Go you get power lights, do the fans start > to turn when you turn the computer on? Not only does the computer turn on, from the sounds it makes, I can tell that it is loading the operating system and doing such things as mounting external disk drives. I think that if I could just find that VGA on/off switch, everything would immediately go back to normal. > > If so and my pervious advice still doesn't work, you might try using a PCI > video card too, at least temporarily. The GeForce FX 5200 is a PCI board. Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
