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steelhead
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul formerly known as Victoria
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 Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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Its a straight up monitor.
I hooked it up via DVI cable tothe back of my laptop. There was only one jack at the back that it would of worked with, so yes it was prety obvious. Still nuthin comes up.
This is lame, less than a month old. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| steelhead wrote: |
Its a straight up monitor.
I hooked it up via DVI cable tothe back of my laptop. There was only one jack at the back that it would of worked with, so yes it was prety obvious. Still nuthin comes up.
This is lame, less than a month old. |
Ahh.
So the laptop screen is working but not the external monitor. . .
<control panel>, <appearance and themes>, <display> go to the <settings> tab.
If you're lucky, at this point you'll see two blue squares, one with "1" and one with "2". I suspect the "2" will be slightly grayed out. Click on it and check the little box on the bottom that says "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor" to give yourself a two monitor display, or click the "advanced tab" and find some setting you can play around with. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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Unlikely to be the monitor! Things without moving parts dont tend to break.
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Really? I beg to differ! |
But, if I read the OP correctly, he is seeing a 'no signal' error message on his monitor...
My experience has been thatthe monitor either works, or it doesn't. And you can't really go digging into a monitor and repair it yourself (in fact that's extremely dangerous to do if you have a CRT monitor).
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It sounds unlikely, but the broken monitor that I dealt with last year was giving a 'no signal' message. I don't know what the problem was exactly, but it was replaced straight-up on warranty.
About my bad luck with components going bad, it was a heat issue that caused my problems. Before I knew it was an issue, my video card, screen, and MOB became casualties and I have suspected my RAM of having bad sectors eversince (though I am consistently too lazy to start an overnight diagnostic to check for issues). This is on a laptop, btw. |
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steelhead
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul formerly known as Victoria
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:55 am Post subject: |
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I see the tab you are talking about Beaver, and its exactly as described. Im way ahead of you and played with the advanced settings..... natta. And the extend to this monitor option is not available. I see it, just doesnt seem to exist.
Monitor probs? like I sad, dont want to haul the whole damned system to youngsan.
Cheers all, and thanks |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 7:50 am Post subject: |
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It sounds unlikely, but the broken monitor that I dealt with last year was giving a 'no signal' message. I don't know what the problem was exactly, but it was replaced straight-up on warranty. |
Well, it's sounding more and more like it's the same thing here... 
Steelhead, do you have a neighbor or coworker nearby where you can take your monitor and plug it into somebody else's computer?
And of course (should have asked earlier) this is an LCD monitor (kind of a stupid question these days but just want to be sure all the dots are connected here)? |
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:18 am Post subject: |
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I strongly doubt it's the monitor itself. If it's displaying "no signal", then you can be pretty much sure that the one thing that IS working is the monitor. Leaving you with....
1. video cable
Unlikely, but possible.
2. video card
It could be on the blink - I've blown plenty before - or it's not sitting on the mainboard properly. Pull it out, push it back in again, try again.
3. Other cards/memory on motherboard not sitting right
If you've tried #2 and there's still a problem, pull out all of the cards except the video card from the mainboard. See if it comes to life. If it does, one of the other cards wasn't totally pushed in properly. Re-seat the cards one at a time, testing each time.
4. AC grounding issue
This has happened to me several times with the Korean 2-prong power. If there are ground problems, some computer power supplies won't switch on - presumably a safety feature. Try flipping the power plug that goes into the wall 180 degrees.
If you feel a shock when you touch some of the metal on the computer, this is a strong hint that it's a grounding problem.
Considering it's an almost new machine, this shouldn't be happening. It's probably better to suffer the commute and take it back than to spend too much time futzing around inside the thing. Good luck. |
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steelhead
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul formerly known as Victoria
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| turned out to be screwed up setting.,,, all is well, waste of a day though. |
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