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Question

No signal from PC to monitor or TV(using HDMI).

by JohnLucaF Feb 24, 2018 11:48AM PST

Hello I’m looking to see if anyone can suggest a possible troubleshoot or fix for my current issue. One day my Acer desktop (windows7) stoped putting a signal out to my monitor or my TV through my HDMI cable. I pulled it apart and used my sata reader on the hard drive it didn’t read it. I cleaned it then tried the sata again and it worked. I put it back together tried the TV and monitor again to no avail. Seems to power up fine and the HD sounds good. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated on how I can stop the NO Signal to my tv and monitor. Thx.

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Clarification Request

How old, what model?

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 24, 2018 12:20PM PST

And more story. There are PCs that won't boot or show any display when the CMOS battery gets too low. It's the cheapest part it can be but I run into folk that insist we know what the cause is. Sadly this part is so cheap that's it's early on the list of possible bad parts. We don't measure but just replace. Some yell heresy and insist we measure the old battery so we do and tack on more to the repair bill for the service.

After that it's the classic DEAD PC (google that) where we remove what we can to see if it comes back up.

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No signal

by Colbuh Apr 22, 2018 7:54PM PDT

Okay, so I was cleaning out my pc as per usual, so I unplugged all the cords into my motherboard, took out the motherboard, ram, gpu, heat sink, and the cpu. After reassembling my computer I have had problems. After troubleshooting, I turn on my computer and all the lights and fans turn on, but no display on the monitor, the caps lock doesn’t glow when I click it. I tried different ram, and a different gpu but the problem still persists, help please. I feel like it’s my CPU because I will leave it on to test temperature and the heat sink isn’t warm at all.
My specs:
MSI R9 390 gpu
8 gb DDR3 ram
A88XI AC V2 Motherboard
Amd - A10 7850k
120 gb Samsung ssd

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