MONITOR PROBLEM

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I have windows XP & my monitor is dark. I have chaged
monitors to find the same problem. It says I have plug &
play monitor driver.
 
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I have windows XP & my monitor is dark. I have chaged
monitors to find the same problem. It says I have plug &
play monitor driver.
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I have windows XP & my monitor is dark. I have chaged
monitors to find the same problem. It says I have plug &
play monitor driver.
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Has this suddenly happened (i.e., was it ever working OK with XP), or has it
only shown up since you had XP?
Can you try the monitor on another PC, does it do the same?
I'd guess that the video card is on its way out, since two different
monitors show the same.
 
I have windows XP & my monitor is dark. I have chaged
monitors to find the same problem. It says I have plug &
play monitor driver.
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Assuming that your monitor used to work with XP, then it sounds to me like
either your video adapter is dead or perhaps you've accidentally reset its
properties to some vertical refresh rate that your monitor doesn't support.
The thing is, to play with the video properties you pretty much have to be
able to see the screen first.

Does the monitor work if you boot up in "safe" mode? I believe that forces
the monitor settings to work with a primitive VGA mode that should work with
pretty much any monitor. If it won't work in safe mode even, then I'd say
your video adapter card is fried.

Good luck...

Bill -- (Remove KILLSPAM from my address to use it)
 
Assuming that your monitor used to work with XP, then it sounds to me like
either your video adapter is dead or perhaps you've accidentally reset its
properties to some vertical refresh rate that your monitor doesn't support.
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As a third possibility, I suppose your hard drive may have also lost the
video adapter driver file somehow -- over written or lost or some such. The
computer would provide error messages about that, but then of course you
can't read them....

Bill -- (Remove KILLSPAM from my address to use it)
 
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