Jonathan Wilson wrote:
On Friday 25 January 2008 10:44:07 D Henson wrote:
I now get no display at all, not even the stuff you normally get when you boot the system. Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't any PC monitor display that stuff, regardless of whether or not a driver is installed? All that I do get is "No VGA Input" and "Monitor going to Sleep". This sounds like a hardware problem. I removed my existing card (GeForce 2) and installed a newer one (GeForce FX 5200). No display. Reinstalled the older card. Replaced VGA cable. No display. Removed power for 20 seconds & reconnected power. No display. Replaced monitor with known good monitor. No display. Now I'm really lost.
Anybody have any suggestions on how to proceed?
Don Henson
Do you have a CRT or an LCD laptop?
LCD - HP V19? (I'm not at my desk.)
Please check to make sure the monitor's settings haven't been corrupted. Just this week I had a friend call and say his big 24" LCD monitor wasn't working anymore - no lights, no display. After poking a lot of buttons I finally figured out that it had just lots it's mind - was listening to the wrong input, was set to partial resolution, a bunch of things. I assume a surge hit the monitor or something.
I haven't done that but I will.
You are saying, I take it, that you do not see even the BIOS messages scrolling by when you first boot up.
Correct, not even the splash screen announcing the motherboard model, etc.
That makes me wonder if the BIOs is set to send it's output to something other than the AGP/PCIe port.
Possible but the system has been working for years and has gone thru several upgrades. I would have thought that such a problem would have shown itself by now.
Is there a built-in VGA on the mainboard that you are not using? If so, plug your monitor into it and see if it's getting signal. If so you'll have to go into the BIOS and tell the BIOS to use the AGP/PCIe port (it will probably be an options called "Init Display First"
No built-in that I know of but I'll double check.
You might also need to clear your CMOS memory. How to do this depends on the specific computer. Its usually done by moving a jumper temporarily.
That appears to be okay. See next comment below.
Is the computer turning on at all? Go you get power lights, do the fans start to turn when you turn the computer on?
Not only does the computer turn on, from the sounds it makes, I can tell that it is loading the operating system and doing such things as mounting external disk drives. I think that if I could just find that VGA on/off switch, everything would immediately go back to normal.
If so and my pervious advice still doesn't work, you might try using a PCI video card too, at least temporarily.
The GeForce FX 5200 is a PCI board. Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org