Monitor Stays Idle at Startup

[Adam]

Here is the situation. One of the users in here has a
computer that when she comes in and tries to startup the
computer she turns on the computer and the monitor and
when she does that the green light comes on, on the
monitor but then goes back to yellow the idle state. So
normally what she has to do is turn off the computer and
monitor and try again sometimes she has to do this 3 or
so times before it will actually come on and work. I've
noticed that when the system goes idle when she has it
running it will come back on properly when she moves the
mouse or something. The computer and monitor are brand
new and we have tried multiple monitors on the system.
And it seems like every time we have tried it works fine
at first but then starts doing this sort of stuff.


I'm at a lost any help is appreciated.

Thanks Adam

 

[Amethyst]

Yes I've tired leaving monitor on all the time and it
doesn't seem to help. I have told her to just leave it on
too and she insists on just turning it off. Yes again I
have tried to turn monitor on first and that doesn't seem
to help either.

As far as the other post I thought too that the
video/graphic card could be bad, but just wasn't sure
since it was brand new.

Adam

What's being new got to do with the price of kippers? I've had graphics
cards fail on me within 48 hours of putting them in a machine. Under the law
of averages every so often someone is going to purchase a machine with a dud
card or, as Mike said, a dud on-board chip, in which case there could be
other issues (I didn't say are I said could) with the motherboard that
haven't manifested themselves yet.
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[John B]

Amethyst, after spending 3 minutes figuring out which end of the pen to use,
wrote:

What's being new got to do with the price of kippers? I've had graphics
cards fail on me within 48 hours of putting them in a machine. Under the law
of averages every so often someone is going to purchase a machine with a dud
card or, as Mike said, a dud on-board chip, in which case there could be
other issues (I didn't say are I said could) with the motherboard that
haven't manifested themselves yet.

Because, you dimwitted moron...it's what's *expected* of 'new' things...that
they 'work'. Your idiotic 'law of averages' is already a 'given', but most
people don't *expect* it til it happens. Damn, but you're stupid.

John