Alan2273 Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 A friend at work has a problem with his monitor.He is running XP home and when he switches his computer on the monitor goes into standby mode so he can not accesss anything.I can not at the moment give you any more details than that.Has anyone any thoughts on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwp Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 could he have altered the screen resolution to one his monitor can't handle by anychance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted December 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 pwp he is bringing it to me tomorrow so I will start it in safe mode and check that, thanks for the suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvw Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 I've had 2 monitors break down on me, it's easiest to change monitors and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Strange question...Is it using onboard video? If so, let me know because I've had the exact same problem with an MSI board with onboard video. Also the reason I do not buy MSI anymore (it was savage s3 onboard. I recomend nvidia chipset now) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted December 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Problem solved.He had just brought it second hand of a friend and had connected the monitor to the onboard graphics instead of the graphics card.I wish they were all as easy to sort out as that.When I hooked it up to the graphics card the card seemed to move so I took the side of the case and the screw was sitting on top of the graphics card and another screw was floating around in the bottom of the case, the front USB connector block had come off and there was a lot of dust inside.So I gave it a good clean, put a blanking plate in a slot that had been used and just left open (and used the spare screw to secure it).Whoever had it before certainly did the buyer no favours as it is a HP computer and it says on the front that it has an ATI 9600 pro graphics card, but this has been changed for a TNT Riva 2 32mb card.It also says that it has 512mb of memory when in actual fact it only has 256mb.Whether to tell him or not is now my dilema. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 If he is happy with it and it works all right, is it worth telling him what you have found?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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