Monitor is not coming on....

[bulldawgs75]

i have power to it but a couple of days ago i noticed that my screensaver locked up and the pc was not responding. i had to do a cold shutdown and when i did my pc started back up but the monitor never came back. the onitor does have power to it. when i try to turn off the monitor and then back it says "no signal found or not connected"

what do you think might be the problem. the video card is a ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. it is about a year old. :confused:

[bulldawgs75]

ttt

[trey85stang]

[QUOTE=bulldawgs75]ttt[/QUOTE]


usually you should wait about a day or so before ttt'ing your thread.. heck it was still at the top when you did that....

as for your problem.. a bad video card can cause that.. check your monitor on another machine if you can. If not try another video card.

[46Tbird]

Yep, the monitor isn't receiving a signal due to a bad vid card, a bad video driver, or the monitor itself has crapped out (least likely, since you can read the text on it ;) ).

[bulldawgs75]

sorry for the ttt'ing so soon. as you see i am still new with this forum. thx for the info. have you ever had any experirnce with the ATI cards?

[1994SilverGT]

the radeon 9700 is a pretty good card, might wanna chekc and see what could have caused it to take a crap, ive never had any problems like random video card crappage with ati cards.

[bulldawgs75]

how can i determine what caused it. have enought skills to get me by but nothing like troubleshooting what may have caused it. any help would be appreciated

[ThreeFingerPete]

if you are anywhere near plano, i have spare monitors and vid cards, if you need some help.

[bulldawgs75]

i am in fort worth but thanks for the offer

[Robert Olson]

is it giving any beep codes, it could be a memory problem or a mb problem, take your vid card out and your memory out and reseat them, if it is beeping post up what the beeps sound like....

[bulldawgs75]

there has never been any beeps but tonigh i am going to unseat the vid card and reseat to see if that helps and will do the same to the memory. if it is still bad then what is a good card to go with. my card was actually the ATI 128mb Radeon 9600 xt/se

[trey85stang]

[QUOTE=bulldawgs75]there has never been any beeps but tonigh i am going to unseat the vid card and reseat to see if that helps and will do the same to the memory. if it is still bad then what is a good card to go with. my card was actually the ATI 128mb Radeon 9600 xt/se[/QUOTE]

when did you buy that card?? id check and see if it has some kind of warranty... That is a very decent card... the only step up is probably a 9800XT

[ThreeFingerPete]

the 9800 itself is a step up.

[n2ocoupe]

Did you test your monitor on another pc?