Blacked out monitor

[Guest]

Big problem.. kids wanted to try to play a game that wouldn't open and the
"error" message said to try changing display settings...they did...tried
several times and it didn't work..tried again and must have done something
now the monitor is a completely black screen. I at first thought that
perhaps the monitor blew up but the screen saver shows up so I think the
monitor is fine. However, I can not change the settings back to normal
because the screen stays black. When I shut down the monitor and turn it
back on it shows a pop-up that says self diagnosis are setting correct? I
haven't found any key or button that will affect it and after about 15
seconds the screen goes black. I have also tried changing out monitors but
the same thing happens. HELP!!!

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Big problem.. kids wanted to try to play a game that wouldn't open
and the "error" message said to try changing display
settings...they did...tried several times and it didn't work..tried
again and must have done something now the monitor is a completely
black screen. I at first thought that perhaps the monitor blew up
but the screen saver shows up so I think the monitor is fine.
However, I can not change the settings back to normal because the
screen stays black. When I shut down the monitor and turn it back
on it shows a pop-up that says self diagnosis are setting correct?
I haven't found any key or button that will affect it and after
about 15 seconds the screen goes black. I have also tried changing
out monitors but the same thing happens. HELP!!!

Likely out of range... Can you boot into Safe Mode?

 

[Guest]

It sounds like you have a restore partition on the harddrive with
manufacturers software in it which is saying something about iagnostics. You
may have a restore CD that came with the computer. You will probably be given
options if you put the restore cd in the cdrom drive and reboot the comutr.
You may need to enter the bios set the boot order so the computr boots from
the restore cd.
I have never had a computer with a restore cd but I have just restored my
own computer with Seagate Disk Wizard which is similar to a restore cd and
supplied fre by Seagate for Seagate and Maxtor harddrives which Seagate
sell....so maybe I can help.