Hello everyone. Here is my dilema. I have a monitor/video card problem, i am leaning more towards the video card, but just not sure what is wrong. My husband and i have 2 computers next to each other, mine is the one not working. When I boot it up, the monitor doesn't respond. You can hear the computer booting and everything sounds fine. However, the monitor light stays orange. If you turn the computer on and off it will catch sometimes and come up. And then everything is fine until i have to restart. Then I play the on/off game until it comes back on. I have reconnected my husbands monitor to mine and vice versa, and mine responds to his computer, so I know it isn't the monitor. His however doesn't respond to mine. Any ideas besides just buying a new video card? Any help is greatly appreciated :)

Thank you,
Melissa

Hi Melissa
Pop into device manager to see if there are any ! or X there?

Have you tried un-installing and then re-installing your Video drivers?

If that does not work you could try swapping your card into hubby'y to check it there.

Hello Melissa,

I’m using diagnostic charts.

START UP TEST
1. Is the PC dead? No [You have lights, fan etc.]
2. Did POST [Power-On Self-Test] appear to complete? I’ll assume it didn’t.
3. Were there any audible beeps? I’ll assume no. [There’s usually a single beep before the display of characters on screen, which indicates successful completion of POST.]
4. You have no completion of POST.

I had this problem when my fan was getting old and it magically disappeared when I fitted a new fan and heat sink.
I think the fan may have been shorting the power supply and affecting the POST [see 1 in next list].

NO POST
1. Are PSU voltages correct? If not your power supply may be at fault. If they are correct then:
2. Disconnect all peripherals and system adaptor cards except the keyboard and monitor.
3. Does POST now run? If not the system board [or something on it] is faulty. If it does run, then:
4. Re-connect the floppy disk drive and run advanced diagnostic software from a floppy disk. Get “TuffTest-Lite” from http://www.tufftest.com/tt01-lite.htm or better if you can. This is simple and basic.
5. Does the system board pass? If not then it is faulty. If it does pass then:
6. Switch of and re-connect ONE peripheral/adaptor card.
7. Does POST now run? If it doesn’t this last device connected is faulty and should be disconnected. If it does run the device should be tested using the diagnostics and if it fails is faulty and should be disconnected. If it passes it'’ ok and should be included.
8. Repeat from step 6 until all devices are tested, all faulty are excluded and all working are included, then re-test the system.

A few Q's.

Does the pc have both a video card and on-board video?
Does anything different happen if you boot into SafeMode?
Does DirectX give you any troubleshooting help?

Also,

Have you tried removing and reseating the video card? Have you made sure the connectors are all tight? If it is a PCI card, have you tried a different slot? If it is AGP and you have a PCI card installed next to it, you might want to try moving that card.

Budfred