Anytime I turn off my computer, upon turning it back on, I always get a blank screen that reads: "Check your PC and Signal Cable Monitor is Working." In the past, the only way I have been able to get the computer to work again was to hook the monitor up to a different computer and the computer up to a different monitor, to see which of the two was causing the problem. Both worked fine with their replacement and then upon re-joining the two together, the problem was solved. Obviously, this is not a very desirable solution. When all is well, I have checked the monitor settings, and system standby, hibernate, etc. are all off. I am currently writing this from a different PC as the problem occurred again. What can I do to fix this and what is happening? (For what it is worth, the monitor and PC were bought seperately.)
two areas to look at first. 1) video cable...if it is one of the removable ones, just switch it with a known good one. 2) video card. also try to switch it out and see if it changes anything. those would be were I try first. post back if these dont work and we'll comeup with somthing else.
Those troubleshooters are worthless. Besides, if I read it right, his problem is upon bootup, which negates the Windows part of the equation.
Its gotta be something wrong w/ either the monitor or video card. Have you tried keeping the different monitor hooked up to the computer, and seeing if you had the problem still? Or, having the old monitor hooked up to another computer? My guess is that the computer can't get the monitor out of standby mode... thus, meaning there could be something wrong with the video card.
I am about to reformat a hard drive with XP on it. I was going to use a 98 boot disk to do the format. Is that a good idea?
Do you have an XP disk? If so just put it in and rub it to install. When you get to the install XP part it will show you the drive partitions on your machine. Just delete the current partitions (use the instructions on the bottom of the screen), when you do that the XP install will require a reformat and it will do it automatically. After you delete the partition you will have to add one back in. Just follow the instructions at the bottom of the screen. Onc eyou ad din a new partion select it as the install point and it will ask you what type of format you want. Choose the regular NTSF option and it will format and begin the install. The reason you really don't want to use the 98 disk is because of these format options. You don't have a choice on which you use and generally NTSF offers better stability and causes some files to use less space.
You will probably have to FDISK it first to change the low level format from NTFS back to FAT. You 98 FDISK will probably refer to you XP partition as Non-DOS. Just delete it and then recreate it. It should be fine if 98 is really the way you want to go. I would at least load W2K, but if you want to play games you almost have to load XP. I liked 98, but MS doesn't support it anymore and a lot of the new software won't work on it.
Rockets2K: Thanks, I will try switching these out to see if that helps. IROC it: I've tried that too, hasn't worked. Nick: I am about to try this out as I can't remember if it eventually happened last time. Also, if it helps any, sometimes I am able to get into Windows for a good 10 seconds before the screen blanks out and reads "Power Saving Enabled, The Monitor Will Shut Down in Seconds." I know I don't have power saving enabled though....
Also, I don't know if I made this clear, but once I magically am able to get the monitor to work by some random chance, it works completely fine. The problem does not occur again until I shut it down.
I want to use the 98 boot disk to reformat and then reinstall XP. Are we talking about the same thing?
read my post. It was geared towards reloading XP . If you have the xp install disk there shouldn't be any reason to use the 98 disk to reformat. XP has both format types (Fat32 & NTSF) 98 will only have Fat 32. If you ar einstalling XP most everything I have heard is that you want to use NTSF anyway. CK
You should be able to boot from the XP CD and run the format/install from there. Then you wouldn't have to FDISK the drive. You may have to go into the BIOS and set the boot option to CD first or it may skip it.
There has been evidence that when you reformat your HD using the XP CD that it does not completely clear out your HD, or so I've heard. Can I just use a Windows 2000 boot disk?
If you select the option to choose a new partition, you can delete the current one and recreate a new one and then format. It is the same thing that FDISK would do for you. Once you delete and then recreate the partition that data is long gone.
Nick: I hooked up the problem monitor with the good computer, and the problem computer with the good monitor. I am currently typing from the first combination as it is working fine. The latter combination resulted in the good monitor shutting down. This would point toward a problem with the video card, no?
cabbage.... two things are possible problems. 1) vid card...most likely, but i wonder now what with the "power saving" thing you talked about today. 2) BIOS problem...low level hardware problem. I woul dtry the vid card first...but be ready if that doesnt solve the problem. We may need to try a BIOS reset.
Pun....if you install from your Xp disk..and delete ALL partitions..it will be fine. dont think about it too much...just do it.
