April 17, 200521 yr The other day I started windows messenger and I needed to update it. So I let it do that and it restarted itself. After that the monitor on the computer will not start up. Its just stays in stand by (amber) mode. I've tried another monitor, and another video card neither worked. All monitors and video cards work on this computer though. Both cards were agp I don't have a pci card to see if that works. There is no onboard video adapter either. I pulled the hard drive and put in this computer and my windows installation was corrupted so I reinstalled. And it worked fine in this box.I put it back in the other computer and no change. I've pulled the CMOS battery as well and nothing. I can not figure out what is wrong.
April 17, 200521 yr Maybe the actual motherboard itself is broken? I'm guessing probably the video card connection thingy. Where the bloody hell are you?
April 17, 200521 yr Well if I had to guess, I would agree with Cameron and agree that since you've tried different video cards, it's not the card's GPU, so I would assume it would be a integrated circuit on the AGP slot that is malfunctioning. The only thing I can suggest is that you switch to PCI because it's apparent that the AGP isn't recieving an output signal since your monitor is in a "dead" status. Worst case, buy a cheap card from a store, test it, then return it. That's not a nice way to handle it, but it get's the job done. However, after the expense of all that, it would be a heck of a lot better buying a new mobo at somewhere good like [ http://www.tigerdirect.com ].
April 17, 200521 yr Got any onboard VGA slot you can try? Will be the same blue coloured connection as your graphics card's connector :)
April 17, 200521 yr Got any onboard VGA slot you can try? Will be the same blue coloured connection as your graphics card's connector :) There is no onboard video adapter either. Where the bloody hell are you?
April 17, 200521 yr I had a similar problem and it turned out to be the power supply unit. When I plugged the monitor into the wall socket it worked. I think that this would only affect it if the monitor is powered from the PSU.
April 17, 200521 yr Author thanks for the responses. I'm gunna try and find someone that has a pci card I can borrow today. I forgot to mention that the fan on my card was working fine so the card was getting power. I'll post back with any changes.
April 17, 200521 yr Helped a friend recently that had the "monitor not getting a signal, always amber light" problem and pc not booting up. Solution? One of the memory Dimm's on the motherboard had gotten half out of it's slot... of course nobody would fess-up to messing with it. Reseated the motherboard memory and all was good. Check your memory... "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people."-George W. Bush
April 18, 200521 yr Is it an LCD montir or CRT ?? It's possible, if it's an LCD, that it's gone into either power save mode, or digital/analogue mode - whichever your video card ISN"T putting out... We get that occasionally on the LCDs at work :) One-time #13 smither.All-time #1 noob.
April 18, 200521 yr Author Is it an LCD montir or CRT ?? It's possible, if it's an LCD, that it's gone into either power save mode, or digital/analogue mode - whichever your video card ISN"T putting out... We get that occasionally on the LCDs at work :) Well the original one was a crt and then I tried an lcd there as well. I still haven't found anyone with a pci video card to test so I might just buy one when I get my check.
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