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Monitor display not working. Please help.?
I just moved my computer from my parents' house to my boyfriend's apartment. When we set it up here, the tower would turn on, the speakers worked, the mouse and keyboard turned on, and my external harddrive would turn on. However, my monitor (Mitsubishi DiamondScan 50) would not show the display screen. The power would turn on; the green light would appear when it was turned on, but then it'd switch to the orange light each time.
We tried switching from the main video hookup to the one in my graphics card, and there was no change. The computer and all its components were fully operational at my parents' house; it wasn't until he moved it over here that it started with this.
We've also tried:
- monitor in the on board with the graphics card in and out
- monitor in my graphics card (cant test my card in my boyfriend's computer)
- my monitor on his computer, and it works
- his monitor on my computer, which does not work
Checked the ram; took out each stick and then replaced them. I know they're in properly now because, when my boyfriend tried to put them back in last night, my system kept beeping until I went over and placed them in correctly.
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Okay, so you're not getting a video signal to your Mit monitor. Did you try your monitor cable on his, when you tried your monitor on his? (You may have, I just have to go back to this, because your monitor cable may be toast!) You indicate you have a dedicated graphics card, so I'll assume you were plugging your monitor into it, before you moved. Your BIOS,(PCI setting is enabled), and OS,(drivers for the dedicated graphics card), are set to use the graphics card now, and override the Onboard graphics, so plugging your monitor into it would do you no good,(as you've found, I'm just stating why this is so). Leave the dedicated graphics card out, fire the computer up again, with a known good monitor cable plugged into the monitor, and into your onboard graphics port, on your computer. Still nothing? BIOS is not going back to the default state,(Onboard graphics). Okay, put the graphics card back in, and install the cd for the graphics card, in your cd/dvd-rom drive. Don't have it, or it didn't come with your computer? If this graphics card came with the computer, then install the System Restore disk. This will reset the BIOS, and re-install the needed drivers for the graphics card. Try not to go back to far, as whatever date you chose you will lose any photos, documents, etc. out of your My Documents folder AFTER this Restore Point.(For example the calendar has a restore date, that goes back a month. Anything you put into your My Documents folder,[i.e., My Pictures, My Music, Documents, etc.], after this date-Pooof!) Also any downloaded programs,(after the date of the System Restore Point)