ill try to explain this the best i can, i pretty much just need to know if its my video card or monitor.
i started up my comp, it went to my home screen and froze, with the mouse cursor right in the middle of the screen.
i restarted my computer and low and behold nothing came up on my monitor, i thought my monitor burnt out cause i run it at a higher refresh rate then recommended, but i tryed another monitor and no dice, still nothing.
sooo the question is, am i just having bad luck with broken monitors? or is my video card broken.
anyone else ever had this issue?
try to keep the reponses on the serious side, if you wanna waste your time and post dumb shiet go ahead but i really need help =[
EDIT: not sure if this matters but my computer does start up, but i cant see if it even loads cause nothing comes up on the monitor, and i dont have an onboard graphic card so i cant see if its that, i just wanna make sure its the video card before i shell out $300 for a video card or something.
well a good card is in the 150 range, but it sounds like yours is overheating. it could even be that your cpu is overheating, and the computer shuts off when it gets to a certain temp (which they all do for safety) i would open the case and turn it on, see if any fans aren't working. then if you have another card or onboard graphics, try that and if it works, get a new card. if it doesn't its probably the cpu
Alright well, i took my monitor and plugged in into my laptop, this time the monitor brought up if i wanted to start windows normally or in safe mode (which it didnt for my desktop) then it brought up the windows logo with the loading bar. Then once it got to the welcome screen on my laptop the monitor turned off.
If it was burnt out, i dont think it would of brought up anything.
I tryed another monitor on my desktop and it didnt work either but its old so its not completely reliable.
All my fans spin up, and i dont think its an overheating issue cause it never automatically shut down, and i was using the computer the night before.
I guess i need to bring my desktop into a shop and try to have them hook that up to a monitor or something i dunno...
I dont wanna buy a new monitor and have that not work, or buy a new computer to only find it was the monitor issue.
I pretty much fail at life and i want to kill myself.
Guess im gonna have to con the grandmother into buying me a new comp....
Not sure what im gonna do now, thanks for the help anyway, ill continue to troubleshoot this piece of shiet. If anybody else has any suggestions please post it, anything at this point will help.
does the black screen with white letters show up(when you first turn on PC) ? if so.. i dont think its the monitor.. but since you said you plugged it to your laptop .. im not quite sure. if you have a friend that lives close and has a pc, go to his house and try it (both plugging his pc into your monitor and vice versa)
well the one thing with the monitor is that if you set the refresh rate too high, it might be out of range, and do the windows loading then go black. i set a couple monitors at my school to 140hz and they did that lol.. the librarians were so confused, i let them think it was the comp and i didnt do anything.
so try a good monitor, even hook it up to a tv (lcd or plasma should work) and see if it works right.
the cpu is set to shut off at a certain temp so it doesn't burn up. any cpu should have it, you can turn it off but its not a good idea. if all the fans are working i'm guessing its just something you did to the monitor.
#5 yeah the white letters first showed up when i plugged it into my laptop and started it up, then it showed the windows loading screen (0n my monitor) then it shut off again when my laptop got to my home screen. So either it indeed is fcked or my monitor just wasnt able to transfer the feed properly from my laptop to my monitor.
and #6 my monitor runs at 85hertz on my desktop (which is the highest to run for the desktop screen) but i meant i run cs at 100hertz and i have been for like 3 or 4 years but i doubt that would just NOW make it burn out. and i know what your talking about when you try to set the hertz too high, and thats definitely not it.
i dont think its the monitor cause if the monitor burnt out when i started up my PC originally, it wouldnt make my computer freeze, the monitor just wouldnt start at all right?, never heard of monitors making computers freeze, although anything is possible.
im thinking it just might be my video card, i wont know for sure until i hook my PC up to another monitor, or vice versa.
could be the cpu as well... i dont know
ill just wait till i move in my new house i guess to try everything, and if everything fails, im ordering a new comp from maingear =P
pretty much all i can do is try the monitor on a new PC, or try my PC on a new monitor lol, or just punch myself in the mouth a few times. last option sounds good lmfao.
thanks for all your help, im pretty much a sitting duck here.
if any of you come up with a new solution post back here or message me
it might be your graphics card .. funny because recently my old pc kept crashing(with me replacing everything over the year; power supply, ram, graphics card, Harddrive, etc), so i bought a new one. my brother later found out that it was the graphics card that made my PC crash.
yeah, it might be the PSU as well, i didnt think of that. If a part in the comp is dead it wont start up, correct? (psu fans wouldnt start up, video card fan wouldnt start up, ect)
all the parts are somewhat old (600watt PSU, 6800 ultra, 3.6ghz 775, 1gb pc-4300)
im just gonna sell my computer part by part on ebay until someone tells me its broken lmfao.
if the psu was broken it wouldn't work, i'd think that would be the most obvious because if it broke while it was on, theres a good chance it would make some noise and maybe short something.
if you have another graphics card i would definitely try that
you can test if your computer boots up or not. just listen to the speakers or headset if you computer actually boots then u will hear windows start up sound.
open your case up see if your video card/cpu is hot. try taking out your video card and reseating it and your ram if that doesnt work. did you try overclocking your cpu? or video card maybe.. this happend to me before when i was ocing my cpu, also turn your fan speed on your video card to 100% to keep it cooler it will drop your gpu temp 15-20degrees alot of v-cards default fan speed is 25%
weird comp issue
i started up my comp, it went to my home screen and froze, with the mouse cursor right in the middle of the screen.
i restarted my computer and low and behold nothing came up on my monitor, i thought my monitor burnt out cause i run it at a higher refresh rate then recommended, but i tryed another monitor and no dice, still nothing.
sooo the question is, am i just having bad luck with broken monitors? or is my video card broken.
anyone else ever had this issue?
try to keep the reponses on the serious side, if you wanna waste your time and post dumb shiet go ahead but i really need help =[
EDIT: not sure if this matters but my computer does start up, but i cant see if it even loads cause nothing comes up on the monitor, and i dont have an onboard graphic card so i cant see if its that, i just wanna make sure its the video card before i shell out $300 for a video card or something.
If it was burnt out, i dont think it would of brought up anything.
I tryed another monitor on my desktop and it didnt work either but its old so its not completely reliable.
All my fans spin up, and i dont think its an overheating issue cause it never automatically shut down, and i was using the computer the night before.
I guess i need to bring my desktop into a shop and try to have them hook that up to a monitor or something i dunno...
I dont wanna buy a new monitor and have that not work, or buy a new computer to only find it was the monitor issue.
I pretty much fail at life and i want to kill myself.
Guess im gonna have to con the grandmother into buying me a new comp....
Not sure what im gonna do now, thanks for the help anyway, ill continue to troubleshoot this piece of shiet. If anybody else has any suggestions please post it, anything at this point will help.
so try a good monitor, even hook it up to a tv (lcd or plasma should work) and see if it works right.
the cpu is set to shut off at a certain temp so it doesn't burn up. any cpu should have it, you can turn it off but its not a good idea. if all the fans are working i'm guessing its just something you did to the monitor.
and #6 my monitor runs at 85hertz on my desktop (which is the highest to run for the desktop screen) but i meant i run cs at 100hertz and i have been for like 3 or 4 years but i doubt that would just NOW make it burn out.
and i know what your talking about when you try to set the hertz too high, and thats definitely not it.
i dont think its the monitor cause if the monitor burnt out when i started up my PC originally, it wouldnt make my computer freeze, the monitor just wouldnt start at all right?, never heard of monitors making computers freeze, although anything is possible.
im thinking it just might be my video card, i wont know for sure until i hook my PC up to another monitor, or vice versa.
could be the cpu as well... i dont know
ill just wait till i move in my new house i guess to try everything, and if everything fails, im ordering a new comp from maingear =P
pretty much all i can do is try the monitor on a new PC, or try my PC on a new monitor lol, or just punch myself in the mouth a few times. last option sounds good lmfao.
thanks for all your help, im pretty much a sitting duck here.
if any of you come up with a new solution post back here or message me
thanks again for all your help guys <3
and it could even be a faulty psu
all the parts are somewhat old (600watt PSU, 6800 ultra, 3.6ghz 775, 1gb pc-4300)
im just gonna sell my computer part by part on ebay until someone tells me its broken lmfao.
if you have another graphics card i would definitely try that
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