Monitor Going into Standby??

Barmy Army · Mon, 4th Apr '05, 11:24am

Hello,

When I turn my pc on, my monitor light comes on for around 2 seconds, then there is a faint clicking sound and the monitor light flashes on and off, i.e. standby mode.

The windows boot up works fine, as if I leave it long enough, I can shut the computer down normally ('windows key', 'u', 'u') and it shuts down. The monitor must be getting power as the light is there and few a few fleeting seconds, it actually seems to work, then CLICK standby and much irritation.

I can't get into safe mode, as the monitor cuts to standby after a few seconds, seemingly regardless of the circumstances. So I can't check the refresh rate or anything.

I have not recently added any hardware.

This has been doing this since like, dinner time yesterday. I've tried sooo much to sort it out and it just doesn't want to know.
Please you kind people, can you offer any assistance? Am I looking at buying a new monitor?

Spec:
1.3ghz AMD Athlon
512mb SDRam
Geforce 4 MX460
120gb Hard Drive

Tap Dancing Oyster · Mon, 4th Apr '05, 4:33pm

Can you see any of the text in DOS before windows starts? If not then there is obviously no signal coming through from your card to the monitor.

1. Check the cable from your card to the monitor - it could be shot or the connections are not working correctly, this is the best case in financial terms.

2. Your Graphics card could be playing up. Or perhaps it may have worked itself loose, check it out inside. You've had problems with artifacts on the Gforce as well from what I remember so it may be on its way out?

3. Its could be a monitor problem - this is probably the least likely of the three things.

Hopefully it will be the cable. If not you really need to test your monitor with another machine if that works then try and borrow a different graphics card and see if that works.

Sydax · Mon, 4th Apr '05, 6:34pm

Like Tap said, try to borrow a monitor and/or check your monitor in another PC. I had that problem too and was my video card, and the only way to check was changing monitors and cards.

Barmy Army · Mon, 4th Apr '05, 9:06pm

Thanks for the replied guys.

A mate of mine who's a computer boffin came around, opened it up and told me that it had too much dust in it!

He cleaned it, and it works fine now. He reckons it must have been overheating.

Cheers guys.

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Mon, 4th Apr '05, 11:24am	#1
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Mon, 4th Apr '05, 4:33pm	#2
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Mon, 4th Apr '05, 6:34pm	#3
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