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Title: my old monitor wont work with new computer
Post by: artist on March 23, 2009, 04:00:40 AM

hi all..my friend gave me his old computer ...i plugged in my own monitor and it says

"monitor is in power save mode"

the computer is booting up and my keyboard works with it...but it wont let me view anything apart from that... i know that he used to use the computer for gaming online and maybe i have to change some settings..but im not sure what.

does anyone have any suggestions for me....??


thanks for reading

Title: Re: my old monitor wont work with new computer
Post by: KingPincer on March 23, 2009, 04:08:06 AM

Try to put the computer to another monitor and and see if you could see something.

Title: Re: my old monitor wont work with new computer
Post by: artist on March 23, 2009, 04:25:25 AM

thanks but i dont have another monitor that i can use... :'(

Title: Re: my old monitor wont work with new computer
Post by: patio on March 23, 2009, 09:10:37 AM

Any switches on the monitor itself ? ?

Title: Re: my old monitor wont work with new computer
Post by: artist on March 23, 2009, 09:37:31 AM

hi...thanks for replying...the only switches are a menu button for contrast n stuff which did nothing when pressed and the on/off switch...

Title: Re: my old monitor wont work with new computer
Post by: squall_01 on March 23, 2009, 10:07:38 AM

how did you set this up?  I used a crt when I installed xp on my one machine and then attempted to use a lcd but after a while it didnt work.  Casue of the differnce in hardware.

Title: Re: my old monitor wont work with new computer
Post by: artist on March 23, 2009, 10:43:02 AM

im really baffled  ???...the computer he gave me is a newer version of the one i that im using now...i know the computer he gave me is in full working order ...i just assumed that my monitor and his computer would work together ..i've never had this kind of trouble before...all i can think is that because he was online gaming that he was probably using a joystick..does anyone think this might be the problem and maybe i have to do something at start up of the newer computer???

thanks

Title: Re: my old monitor wont work with new computer
Post by: squall_01 on March 23, 2009, 10:47:50 AM

It was the way windows was configured when it was installed.   You can attempt to do a repair mite work. 

Title: Re: my old monitor wont work with new computer
Post by: artist on March 24, 2009, 03:05:47 AM

hi there....thanks for helping me...it was just plain sillyness on my part...i tried searching in google about my problem and i read a post that said someones son had plugged the monitor into the wrong port....so i had a look at my friends machine and it had a monitor port on the graphics card itself...i had it plugged into the standard one...so here i am on the new computer...yay


thankyou