No Monitor...!

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Hi, am trying to work on my grandfather's computer at my house. Took all of the connectors out of my CPU, plugged them into his and tried to start up...cannot get the monitor to kick in. There IS power to it, but windows isn't recognizing the monitor maybe?!?
Both computers are running XP.
Please help :o}
 
Do you see the BIOS screens before Windows loads? If so,
try booting in safe mode and changing the resolution to a
lower setting. It could be that either the resolution or
the refresh rate are set out of your monitor's range.

Hope that helps.

Chris

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Hi, am trying to work on my grandfather's computer at my
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house. Took all of the connectors out of my CPU, plugged
them into his and tried to start up...cannot get the
monitor to kick in. There IS power to it, but windows
isn't recognizing the monitor maybe?!?
 
Thanks Chris...but no, it doesn't work..I don't see anything at all, the monitor light is still blinking, showing me there is indeed power, but the screen stays black and stays blank as ever :o{
 
What do you mean, "Took all of the connectors out of my CPU, plugged them
into his and tried to start up" All processors are either socket or slot. It
is a one connection deal for the processor. Perhaps, someone else may
understand what you are saying, but I don't. If you post back to this thread
with a little better detail perhaps someone will be able to offer some
fruitful suggestions.

JAX

PoohsHunnyBee said:
Hi, am trying to work on my grandfather's computer at my house. Took all
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of the connectors out of my CPU, plugged them into his and tried to start
up...cannot get the monitor to kick in. There IS power to it, but windows
isn't recognizing the monitor maybe?!?
 
Goodness, what a terse and condescending reply...at any rate, I apologize, I have a neuro-muscular disorder and sometimes it goofs around with my short term memory, at times it means that I get my words mixed up.
What I have said is that I have taken the CORDS out of my CPU (power,monitor, keyboard, mouse and LAN) and connected them to his CPU and tried to start up.
The monitor simply stays blank...
 
Are you sure you have the monitor plugged in properly? Also, you may
need to change the BIOS settings. Is this video card a PCI card or AGP
card? If it is different than what was in the computer origianlly, you
may need to change which type of video source is used. I can't really
tell what you have done with the computer. It is a little unclear.
 
Is there more than one monitor connector on this computer?
Many motherboards these days come with built in video,
however if you add in a video card, the on-board video
usually won't work. In that case you would need to make
sure it's plugged into the card and not the motherboard.

Hope that helps

Chris

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Thanks Chris...but no, it doesn't work..I don't see
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anything at all, the monitor light is still blinking,
showing me there is indeed power, but the screen stays
black and stays blank as ever :o{
 
I think Mr. JAX took your term "CPU" a little too
literally and thought you were swapping the processors
inside the computers.

Another suggestion is to check that the pins in the
monitor cable are not bent. If they are you will need to
straighten them out with some needle nose pliers. Be
careful not to break them off if this is the case.

Chris

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Goodness, what a terse and condescending reply...at any
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rate, I apologize, I have a neuro-muscular disorder and
sometimes it goofs around with my short term memory, at
times it means that I get my words mixed up.
What I have said is that I have taken the CORDS out of my
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CPU (power,monitor, keyboard, mouse and LAN) and connected
them to his CPU and tried to start up.
 
Thank you for responding...I am sorry, I thought it was
going to be some silly little thing that would probably
have some of you laughing...hmmm, might not be after all.
What I know is this...HIS monitor worked on his
computer...my monitor works on my computer...when I hook
my monitor to his computer....nada!
But I DO think he has a video card installed. I guess I
need a little more info. I am learning and have gotten
fairly comfortable with formatting etc, but I am the
first to admit I still have LOTS to learn....lol
 
armed with the last two posts...I have looked at the back
of his CPU again and indeed, there does seem to be a
video card in the back...lo and behold...there also seems
to be a place for the monitor cord to hook up.
I am about to turn off this CPU and see what I can do
with his now...
Thanks all :o}
 
Thank you all...I am pleased to announce I am sending
this post through my grandather's CPU.
I learned something tonight, I have never had a Video
card on my CPU so I didn't know that you needed to hook
the monitor up differently. Now I know and have
successfully updated this computer....
Ta! :o}
 
Thank you all...I am pleased to announce I am sending
this post through my grandather's CPU.
I learned something tonight, I have never had a Video
card on my CPU so I didn't know that you needed to hook
the monitor up differently. Now I know and have
successfully updated this computer....
Ta! :o}
 
Just so you know, your computer must always have a video card. You just
have never hooked a monitor up to one. And your CPU is a little "chip"
inside your computer. You may want to call it the tower or box or case
or something like that instead ;)
 
I am glad you got it all sorted. I must say though, CPU is Central
Processing Unit, not the case it is in.

JAX
 
Funny how such a topic can become so complex if we let it.
By card, we mean something occupying a PCI or AGP slot. As
opposed to a video chipset built into the motherboard with
a monitor connection also built into the motherboard. When
you think about it in this sense, not all computers
actually have a video card. My computer at home is set up
this way. (No card, monitor hooked into the motherboard)

It's all in how you take the term "Card".

For "CPU", I can see how this can cause confusion. Many
people refer to it this way, however. I work in a help
desk, so I usually pick up the intended meaning a little
easier. People tend to refer to their computers as hard
drives, boxes, CPUs. Sometimes I find when I ask them to
check something on their "Computer", such as whether the
hard drive light is flashing, (I'm issuing a command to
make the HDD active for a moment to test whether it's
responsive) they tell me it's not. Later I come to find
they were looking at their monitor.

Chris
 
Hi Chris,

It says, "press any key to continue". I don't find that key on my keyboard,
what do I do? <grin>

JAX
 
It's not likely to be a monitor problem. Take a close look at the video
card. Try reinserting it into the motherboard slot.

What do you mean by "Took all of the connectors out of my CPU, plugged them
into his and tried to start up."?

The CPU is the Central Processing Unit that is plugged into the motherboard.
It almost always has a heat sink/cooling fan mounted on top of it. The CPU
is the "brains" of the computer, not the computer itself. So I am puzzled as
to what you actually did.

PoohsHunnyBee said:
Hi, am trying to work on my grandfather's computer at my house. Took all
Click to expand...
of the connectors out of my CPU, plugged them into his and tried to start
up...cannot get the monitor to kick in. There IS power to it, but windows
isn't recognizing the monitor maybe?!?
 
By CPU I think he means the CPU Box. Try bringing it up in Safe mode
(F8 during startup). This will bring it up in basic VGA (16 colors, 540
by 480), which almost all cards and monitors will support. go into
control panel-> systems -> hardware -> device manager. Click on
Monitors right click the monitor shown and delete it. Reboot and it
should come up with a default monitor, you can then go to setting the
monitor to the specific one if needed.

If you changed the display adapter card, (you would have to have opened
the CPU box to do this) you will have to delete the listing for the old
display adapter under display adapters and then reboot and let windows
install the proper display drivers.
 
Hi Mike:

Maybe I'm nitpicking a little, but what you are referring to as the "CPU
box" is actually the computer, which is an entity that includes the computer
case, power supply, CPU, motherboard, video card, sound card, hard drive,
floppy drive, memory, etc..

Regards.
 
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