I Doubt This Website Can Help Me

[shadowhalo3]

I'll make it simple. My Monitor's LED turns on (green light),however nothing displays. Prior to this when it did come on both the top edge of the screen and a wide range of the bottom of the screen was covered in black this required to lean my monitor downward in order for my display to show properly. A few reps doing this the screen no longer turned on, which after a while it usually does. Whats Wrong?

[patio]

Try the monitor on a known working machine...if it does the same thing chances are it's the monitor going bad.
If it acts normally then chances are it's your vid card....

[shadowhalo3]

okay, but how does this occur in the first place out of nowhere? and does this mean i need to purchase an entirely new vid card. Mind You, This happened before, however, a day's rest restored my monitor. Could This happen again, or was it coincidental?

[patio]

Anything Electronic has a mind of it's own...
Coincidence ? ?  Maybe.

Follow the steps so we can find out which it is first...

[BC_Programmer]

errr, "out of nowhere"? I thought you said that you needed to tilt the monitor forward just to get the proper picture? I'm pretty sure that isn't normal behaviour.

I had a similiar problem with a monitor I had. the magnets where all screwy, so the entire picture was condensed into a single picture in the middle of the monitor. a very bright picture. I could smack it, and every smack would make the picture get a little bigger and then it would shrink again. I'd have to smak it over and over again until i "inflated" the picture back to fill the screen. Then it would be good for a while.

Short story on that, It didn't end up dying completely, but rather, I got so frustrated and smacked it so hard I caused it to snap off it's swivel base and shoot sparks. woops.