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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Jizzason on February 25, 2009, 02:58:04 PM

Title: Monitor not turning on
Post by: Jizzason on February 25, 2009, 02:58:04 PM

Hello everybody I am new to this forum and I have a quick question. Last night I shut off my computer because I wasnt using it anymore. I turned it back on today and after a few seconds it let out 1 loud, long beep and my monitor wouldnt turn on. So I just restarted thinking that would solve it but it still happened. It was working fine the night I shut it off. I know its not the monitor because its connected properly and I just recently purchased it so its brand new. This has never happened to me before and Ive had this comp for about 2 yrs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Re: Monitor not turning on
Post by: JJ 3000 on February 25, 2009, 04:50:57 PM

Reseat you video card and RAM.

Title: Re: Monitor not turning on
Post by: Jizzason on February 25, 2009, 05:18:08 PM

Huh?? English please haha

Title: Re: Monitor not turning on
Post by: JJ 3000 on February 25, 2009, 06:33:08 PM

Okay. Unplug your computer.

Now open the case.

You want to take care to ground yourself while you are working inside of the computer.  Make contact with the metal frame and keep one arm on the metal of the case the whole time you are working. This will prevent any static electricity from damaging any of your components.

The place where the monitor plugs into your computer is your video card. It will be held in place by a Phillips head screw. It might look like this:

(http://en.wiki2buy.com/images/7/77/Video_Card.jpg)

Do you see it?
Remove the screw and pull the video card out of the computer.
Now place the card back into your computer snug the screw back down. You don't have to use a lot of torque to tighten that screw. Just get it snug.

Congratulations! You just reseated your video card :)

If this doesn't work then we will move on to reseating the RAM.

Title: Re: Monitor not turning on
Post by: Jizzason on February 25, 2009, 08:00:36 PM

So I reseated the video card and the problem is still occuring.
Thanx for the help btw.

Title: Re: Monitor not turning on
Post by: JJ 3000 on February 25, 2009, 08:11:11 PM

Before we move any farther, do you have another monitor you could try - just to rule that out as the culprit?

Do you still get the beep?

Title: Re: Monitor not turning on
Post by: Jizzason on February 25, 2009, 09:02:18 PM

No there I dont have another monitor. But when I unplugged the monitor from the video card a message came up on the screen that said please check connection but when I plugged it back in it went away.
And yes the beep is still happening. I already reseated the RAM I searched how to do it on these forums.

Thanx again