i am having problems with my computer when i turn it on. it doesnt find the monitor right away. the first time every day that i turn it on, it doesnt show anything on my monitor. i have to reset one time if i have the computer off for more than a couple of hours.
It is possible your video card is giving you trouble. If you have another you can throw in to try out please do. If on the other card it still hapens then there will be something else to look at. It could very slightly be the monitor haveing problems. Again try with a different monitor to see if the problem continues. -Del
does every thing else go thru the montions except for the videocard/monitor like the hd led lights up as does the floppy & cdrom drive
ya everything seems ok otherwise. it used to be worse before i went into safe mode, uninstalled my driver and then re-booted and installed a new driver. before i did that i had to reset at least 5 times and would always run into a black/green screen with symbols(ex - !@#$%^) all over it. ever since i uninstaled then reinstalled thye driver, it has only been forcing me to reset once and no black/green screen. it must have something to do with the driver but i am not sure.
Field Value Video Adapter Properties Device Description SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000 ATLANTIS PRO Adapter String SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000 ATLANTIS PRO BIOS String BK8.0.0 VR000.000.008.000.000.001.001.000 f Chip Type RADEON 9000 PRO AGP (0x4966) DAC Type Internal DAC(400MHz) Installed Drivers ati2dvag (6.14.10.6497 - ATI Catalyst 4.12) Memory Size 64 MB Video Adapter Manufacturer Company Name Sapphire Technology Limited Product Information http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/products.asp Driver Download http://www.sapphiretech.com/downloads/downloads.asp
Quick answer... You have two ports on the back of your video card, one is smaller then the other. The smaller one is the VGA and the larger, wider one is the DVI. Some PC's or cards do not like to boot from the DVI on occasion, or if your Monitor has both DVI and VGA then it might need to be set to one or the other for startup also. I'm not saying this is your problem, but I am saying that it has been a problem on systems I've worked on before.
i tried taking out the video card before i turned the computer on today. i was having a lot of trouble getting it out and was pulling hard so i stopped trying(didnt want to make it worse). i put it back in but had a lot more trouble starting up today. when i did finally start-up i got this message( it looked like an advertisment) from "errorGuard".it took me to a site to download the errorguard and after i did that it scanned and said that my system contains 163 errors. it then tells me to register with errorguard. what would this mean?
Raider911 If you graphics card is in an AGP slot, usually separate from the other PCI slots, then there is a locking tab at the bottom that either pushes away or slides down to allow you to remove the card. Here is what I would do to see what it might be, card or monitor. When everything is off, turn on just the monitor for a good while, then try to boot up and see if it boots OK.
i tried that today but still didnt get a signal until my 5th re-boot. i got the black screen with some green in it and symbols all over the screen on the 6th, 7th and 8th boot and finally got a clean boot on the 9th. i tried another video card today but still had the same problem with that one. on the first two boots on both cards, there were no beeps whatsoever. then it starts to beep on the 3rd but no signal from the monitor.
