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ZippityDoDa
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Hi there, a friend of mine is having computer issues, he not being technically inclined brought it to my house for help.
Basically what is happening is that the monitor doesn't recognize the signal all the time. I turn the power to the computer on, and the monitor doesn't realize it is plugged in. But it is spotty, sometimes I can turn it on, and the monitor will work (probably well under 10% of the time). When I first plugged it all up it actually worked first try for me, so I thought he was pulling my leg or had done something dumb. But while I had it running, it seemed to run fine. I ran Prime95 and temps seemed fine I guess he never monitored them. I also installed a game, FEAR 2, ran around in the game fine. Temps looked fine too. Then I turned it off, turned it back on, and no joy.
So my first thought, check the DVI cable. I switched cables with a spare I had on hand, no joy. I even tried a VGA with a VGA > DVI adapter I had onhand. Then I thought to see if video card is running, it was. It seemed to be mounted well PCI-E power cable plugged in securely.
Well my next step was to plug the monitor into my working computer, monitor worked fine on my end. I then tried a couple of my monitors on it, a CRT via VGA and an LCD via DVI. No joy.
So then, I thought I would take out the video card and put in a spare I had. Note that the original card in was a 9600GT, and the replacement card was a 9800GTX. No joy.
So I was wondering what you would think the problem would be. Motherboard? PSU? I told him to bring it to me, to save him a yearly salary from taking it to Best Buy, but this has me stumped.
Basically what is happening is that the monitor doesn't recognize the signal all the time. I turn the power to the computer on, and the monitor doesn't realize it is plugged in. But it is spotty, sometimes I can turn it on, and the monitor will work (probably well under 10% of the time). When I first plugged it all up it actually worked first try for me, so I thought he was pulling my leg or had done something dumb. But while I had it running, it seemed to run fine. I ran Prime95 and temps seemed fine I guess he never monitored them. I also installed a game, FEAR 2, ran around in the game fine. Temps looked fine too. Then I turned it off, turned it back on, and no joy.
So my first thought, check the DVI cable. I switched cables with a spare I had on hand, no joy. I even tried a VGA with a VGA > DVI adapter I had onhand. Then I thought to see if video card is running, it was. It seemed to be mounted well PCI-E power cable plugged in securely.
Well my next step was to plug the monitor into my working computer, monitor worked fine on my end. I then tried a couple of my monitors on it, a CRT via VGA and an LCD via DVI. No joy.
So then, I thought I would take out the video card and put in a spare I had. Note that the original card in was a 9600GT, and the replacement card was a 9800GTX. No joy.
So I was wondering what you would think the problem would be. Motherboard? PSU? I told him to bring it to me, to save him a yearly salary from taking it to Best Buy, but this has me stumped.
