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Bman123

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I posted a thread before but didn't get alot of info so I figured I should of posted it here instead.
I installed an 8800gt and a new psu a antec earthwatts 500watt psu and a pny 8800gt 512 video card.Now when I hook the pc up to my monitor I get a message saying no signal,Now if I hook it up to my lcd television the pc will work like normal.I can then plug the cord into my monitor and it will work.That is the only way I can use my monitor is if I use the tv first then switch the cable over to the pc.
I don't understand what is wrong.I have a 500watt psu so I know I have enough power.
I have a stock gt5467e pc with only 1 dvd drive and 1 hard drive.
The monitor is a gateway fpd1775w.I have the video hooked up like this.Dvi at the video card then a vga adapter right behind it and connecting it to the monitor via vga.
So if anyone has any kind of ideas of what I should do please tell me I cannot find any good info with google on what to do so I would greatly apprecite it if someone could help me out.Thanks guys
 
Did you have this monitor before?...Is it a new monitor?

Did you have this graphics card before hooked up to a dif monitor before?...or using DVI before and switching over?..

It could be many things..I had a similar issue in regards to no signal just recently. I just got my hands on a refurbed Nec 20wmgx2....It only came with a VGA cable, and didn't have a DVI cable...So I used VGA for a week or so, and waited for my new DVI cable to ship. When I got it, I'd plug it in, and the computer would start up, and the display would post, but once after the windows loading screen, when the OS kicks in to the log in process, I'd get no signal. I had to end up hooking up to VGA, getting into windows, uninstalling my drivers, restarting, get into safemode, use driver cleaner to remove all instances of nvidia drivers, shut down, switch over to my DVI cable, start up...And I got into windows fine...Installed my drivers now hooked up via DVI..and it worked. For my scenario, it was most likely try to post an analog signal, and my DVI cable was just not liking it, but once I ran through these steps..it started up fresh with the digital signal...

Now yours could be a dif issue, but just thought it would help to state this. Did you just recently switch over to a dif signal?...

you might want to try these steps, it could solve your problem, although there wasn't enough detailed info regarding your prior setup to make an accurate judgment.
 
It is the same monitor I had before.It has always been hooked up via vga.
How do you go about uninstalling the drivers?I don't know what all drivers need deleted.It should only be the nvidia drivers since the pc worked fine before the video card upgrade
 
ah a typo sorry I meant to say a newpsu ea500d and a pny 8800gt.
Well I have been playing cod4 online tonight and I am very happy.
 
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