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A hard one

Sep 6, 2004 4:33AM PDT

I know it is difficult but that's all the info I have.
Win XP PC. You turn it on and the monitor in a couple of seconds turns itself off after showing the first booting data. You reboot and the same happens again. You replace the monitor and everything works.
Now before I tell the girl to throw the monitor away, is there anything I have to check hardware wise and software wise? Give me some ideas guys! I want to impress!!!
Thanks in advance.

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Re: A hard one
Sep 6, 2004 5:31AM PDT

Try the non-working monitor in an entirely different system. Same results? I'd toss it.

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Re: A hard one
Sep 6, 2004 12:29PM PDT

Make darn sure no pins on the monitor cable are bent or pushed-in, as that can happen or simple damaged cable. Next, verify what the monitor setting are in XP under its properties, and see if they are generic or true reflection of the old monitor installed. In other words, you see the monitor plus the video card are they showing thier respective models, etc.. You can reset the properties to less demanding, reattach old monitor then type in the new setting ands see what happens, If the monitor simply does the same thing, then stay with new monitor. Either the monitor is failing or not a true PC type, like maybe some SUn or MAc type with an adapter or similar. Plus, the video card maybe trying to activate a setting not supported by the old monitor or no longer capable of.

good luck -----Willy Happy

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Re: A hard one
Sep 10, 2004 2:42AM PDT

Also make sure there aren't any features buttons pressed in.

Itt happened to us on these big NEC 21in monitors.
They had these nice small buttons on the front - and we would accidently press a couple in when we moved them. One of those times we moved the same monitor back anf forth - would work when we moved it back and not work on the new location - we kept accidently depressing and undepressing the buttons each time we moved it - nerve wracking to say the least.

Check if that isn't the case here.

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Re: A hard one
Sep 10, 2004 2:54AM PDT

Make sure your videocard is seated correctly, if it is not it could be needing too much current and the Motherboard automatically is shutting itself down

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Re: A hard one
Sep 10, 2004 3:33AM PDT

If the display did work for other monitors, there is no problem with the cable or anything, it is in the compatibility. Some monitors are packaged with an installation CD like the Samsung brand.
Or could it be that the male/female plugs were not fit properly during installation?