Remove the video card then with the PC powered off reset the BIOS (CMOS Memory) - remove the CR2032 CMOS backup battery on the motherboard for about 5 minutes. Reconnect the monitor to the original PC's Video connector and power on, and see if that restores the original Video. If this works you can then reinstall the new video card and the PC should automatically detect it and you can connect your monitor to the video card's port. You shouldn't have to disconnect the monitor if you want to connect it to a TV.
Well i tried pulling out the battery and resetting the bios, with the pci e video card out. Then plugged into the original vga and still I am not getting any video output. The monitor just says no input detected. Any other ideas? This one has me stumped. Before this happen I did try to install the software for the pci e video card and got errors saying that the video card software could not be installed, if that matters at all.. But I was still able to connect to the tv the first time i tried. Then it stopped after I disconnected it and tried to connect to the monitor and it stopped working. What should I try next?
Yes I did, I have it hooked up to my other desktop and it works fine. Any questions keep asking, I will do my best to provide as much information as I can to get this resolved.
Well for some reason I was able to get it to work on the original vga. I was able to get into the bios and mess with stuff a couple of times. However, it didn't detect my hard drive to boot from so I tried booting a linux iso from a disk and see if I could get into some system settings. But when i put the disk in I wasn't able to boot it right away so I gave it a hard shutdown and restarted it and lost my video again. Weird stuff... Could it be my motherboard? Or did i just mess up my bios a bunch by giving it a whole bunch of hard shutdowns and taking the battery out so many times? Any ideas on what it could be?
Well for some reason the computer is now working. I am using it right now. I am not really sure what exactly I did, I reset the bios yet another time then went through the settings meticulously and I am now able to boot grub and to my other operating systems. It may have been something as simple of a bad connection at the vga. I don't know for sure. But it is now working. Thanks for all the help! I really appreciate it!
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July 7th, 2011 06:00
Remove the video card then with the PC powered off reset the BIOS (CMOS Memory) - remove the CR2032 CMOS backup battery on the motherboard for about 5 minutes. Reconnect the monitor to the original PC's Video connector and power on, and see if that restores the original Video. If this works you can then reinstall the new video card and the PC should automatically detect it and you can connect your monitor to the video card's port. You shouldn't have to disconnect the monitor if you want to connect it to a TV.
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July 7th, 2011 16:00
Well i tried pulling out the battery and resetting the bios, with the pci e video card out. Then plugged into the original vga and still I am not getting any video output. The monitor just says no input detected. Any other ideas? This one has me stumped. Before this happen I did try to install the software for the pci e video card and got errors saying that the video card software could not be installed, if that matters at all.. But I was still able to connect to the tv the first time i tried. Then it stopped after I disconnected it and tried to connect to the monitor and it stopped working. What should I try next?
akp123_14
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July 7th, 2011 17:00
Yes I did, I have it hooked up to my other desktop and it works fine. Any questions keep asking, I will do my best to provide as much information as I can to get this resolved.
RoHe
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July 7th, 2011 17:00
Can you test this monitor on a different PC or a different monitor on this PC?
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July 7th, 2011 19:00
OK, that says it's not the monitor...
What color is the power button? And is it steady or blinking?
What color are the 4 diagnostic LEDs on front of the tower? If any of them stay green, look up the error codes here.
Ron
akp123_14
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July 7th, 2011 19:00
Well for some reason I was able to get it to work on the original vga. I was able to get into the bios and mess with stuff a couple of times. However, it didn't detect my hard drive to boot from so I tried booting a linux iso from a disk and see if I could get into some system settings. But when i put the disk in I wasn't able to boot it right away so I gave it a hard shutdown and restarted it and lost my video again. Weird stuff... Could it be my motherboard? Or did i just mess up my bios a bunch by giving it a whole bunch of hard shutdowns and taking the battery out so many times? Any ideas on what it could be?
akp123_14
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July 7th, 2011 20:00
Well for some reason the computer is now working. I am using it right now. I am not really sure what exactly I did, I reset the bios yet another time then went through the settings meticulously and I am now able to boot grub and to my other operating systems. It may have been something as simple of a bad connection at the vga. I don't know for sure. But it is now working. Thanks for all the help! I really appreciate it!
RoHe
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July 8th, 2011 09:00
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