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Monitor light won't come on.. not sure if its Vid card

by mirroredfire Nov 18, 2004 1:30AM PST

Well Ive been playing with my computer lately and used some of that silver thermal compound of my processor fan... made it run alot cooler.. so I decided to bump up the speeds a bit.. however when I put it up to 166 in the bios the monitor turned off right after reboot and it hasn't came back on since.. all the fans are running including the one on the video card itself.. it was working fine seconds before running at about 35 degrees C... Ive pulled the battery and that didn't help any..

oh also I pulled my motherboard last night so I had to unplug/replug everything.. and when I boot the computer up now after the lil bump up there isn't a beep sound like usual...

I built this computer myself about 2 years ago, and its had a couple problems but nothing major.. haven't had to replace anything as of yet... thanks alot

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Re: Monitor light won't come on.. not sure if its Vid card

by mattman Nov 18, 2004 11:52PM PST

That's what happen to my Gateway Monitor because its the video card causing it. So, yes it is the Video Card in your Monitor and I think it's better for you to buy a new monitor and dump the bad montior!

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