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Question

Monitor not turning on despite working

Oct 21, 2018 2:24AM PDT

I have two monitors, an Opitx G27C2 and an older LL3190W on a computer with the Radeon Rx550 Graphics card (I'm running an HDMI - VGA reduction) and when i turn the older monitor on, it displays what it should for just a split second and then turns to black. I've tried looking at settings, updating drivers and all that, but it's not working. This setup i have has worked w/o faliure for about a year now and I don't know what even went wrong here...

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Can you please supply
Oct 21, 2018 4:54AM PDT
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Here you go
Oct 21, 2018 5:06AM PDT
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Oct 21, 2018 5:16AM PDT

It was just a badly screwed in vga input, sorry for causing any hassles

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While you fixed it. Thanks for the fix!
Oct 21, 2018 1:37PM PDT

Some don't share. Since you posted the Speccy let me share what I would do if it was my PC.

First, overall a nice setup. Dual Channel RAM, current CPU, OK HDD ( https://hdd.userbenchmark.com/Toshiba-P300-1TB/Rating/3589 ), etc.

1. Unplug the USB memory stick when not needed. Can cause unexpected delays.
2. JAVA looks to be a YEAR out of date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#Java_8_updates
For me I use NINITE.COM to update this. If you don't use JAVA, just uninstall.

3. Drive space on C looks cramped. Updates may fail. Time to clean up.

4. IP CONNECTIONS and SVCHOST entries. This could be from your Minecraft server but just to be sure, disable this: https://www.howtogeek.com/224981/how-to-stop-windows-10-from-uploading-updates-to-other-pcs-over-the-internet/