• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

monitor trouble

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
Is it an LCD monitor? If so, shine a flashlight on it when it goes black. If you see an image it's your backlight (most likely an issue with the power inverter). It might not be your computer causing it, but your power to the monitor. Do those monitors work with other computers?
 
Last edited:
Upvote 0
Gatorubet;1708760; said:
Little help please. My monitor stopped working all of a sudden and went to black. When you turn it (monitor) off and then back on, the correct full color screen showing the correct icons and all return for just a few seconds, and then the screen fades to black again.

I brought a new monitor from work and substituted it and rebooted, and the screen worked just fine for a day....and now it is black too. You turn it off and on, and it shows the normal screen for a second and then goes to black just like the other one did. What it it?? a bad video card or something in my pc??? Demons?
Click to expand...

Take the video cable off of the back of your PC and off the monitor and shake them out. Obviously you have a pixel clogging issue. Those pixels need to be shaken out from time to time.
 
Upvote 0
Sounds like you have a bad monitor cable. Normally if the video card goes out it's done and doesn't give you any video at all.

Borrow one if that ends up being the problem go here and get a new one monoprice.com
 
Upvote 0
Gatorubet;1708760; said:
Little help please. My monitor stopped working all of a sudden and went to black. When you turn it (monitor) off and then back on, the correct full color screen showing the correct icons and all return for just a few seconds, and then the screen fades to black again.

I brought a new monitor from work and substituted it and rebooted, and the screen worked just fine for a day....and now it is black too. You turn it off and on, and it shows the normal screen for a second and then goes to black just like the other one did. What it it?? a bad video card or something in my pc??? Demons?
Click to expand...


I have trouble with the Merrimac.....:!
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top