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Video Card problem...

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Limp Gawd
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My problem is this. When I start my computer, I can see everything POST on my monitor and I don't get any beeps, but when it starts to load windows, my monitor loses the signal and the green light on it turns to orange.

The only way I can get it to work is by restarting the computer and after 2 or 3 restarts it will work. Usually it works fine until I turn off the computer again. I know it isn't the monitor because I have tried several monitors and all have the same problem.

I have tried updating my video card drivers to the latest NVidia drivers, 53.03 i think.

Also, my computer has been working spectacularly for months without this ever happening before. Any advice?

Here's my specs...

ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard using onboard sound
GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB
512mb Kingston pc2700
Windows XP Home, SP1a

I'm about to just buy another video card but I don't want to if there's anything I can do to fix the problem with this one.
 
Have you ever tried just leaving it there and wait to see if the monitor will turn back on?

I'm thinking that it's some sort of weird setting in the video card properties. Did this happen after you updated drivers for your video card? If it did go back to old drivers. All I can think of for now....
 
No, this problem isn't a result of any settings that were changed as everything ran stable for several months in the exact same configuration.

I updated the drivers to see if it would fix the problem but that was only after it had started happening.

I have also tried just leaving it but once it goes off, it will not come back on. I've even tried turning the monitor off after this happens as well as leaving it off for the duration of the boot. Nothing works.
 
Hmmmmmmm, I had this happen to me once before. I remember I had to play in the power options in order to get it to stop and upgrade some monitor drivers. The only other thing I can think of at the moment is that you have installed some other sort of drivers (may not have anything to do with video) that for some reason the Video Card doesn't like. INstalled any new drivers recently?
 
Nope, nothing was installed before this started happening except for maybe 2 months before but it was working great until recently.

I'll try to look in the power settings to see if something changed there. I always set it to not turn anything off.

Thanks for the help.
 
Borrow a friends video card and see if it is your card or another problem...
 
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