Monitor flip out

[Naku]

I think my monitor has gone bad but I'm not sure. I get no error messages and my computer screen goes from my background to black then back again. And some times it either I guess shuts its self off. Cause it acts like I just flipped the switch to turn on power to it and it comes up and says it can't find it that nothing is there.

Did the monitor go bad or is it a virus that this girl doesn't know about. Since my dad said it could be though I'm not sure?

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Naku.

:bang head

[shadow_X27]

I think it could be several reasons. Do you have a video card, or do you have onboard?
Does it say it can't find the computer even when the computer is turned on?
Do you have another monitor you can try it out on?

[Naku]

I just tried my computer on another monitor and I think its just gotten worse. At first it started out find. Though I had to turn it off cause it seemed the mouse came undone with the moving the computer around. But then it went back right into its strangeness. With the funny things on the start up screen and then i went to log into my account and it started up fine but then it went into safe mode. And its been months since I moved the video card over from my old one to this one.

[shadow_X27]

Does the computer have onboard graphics along with the graphics card? If it does, you can try removing the graphics card and trying the monitor on the onboard.

If this doesn't change the problem, then I'm not sure. I might need more help on this / correction, but then I think it could be a RAM or motherboard problem. I had a monitor at work that would pixilate terribly. It ended up being the motherboard. Replaced it, worked fine.

Another thing I would try depending on how techie you are.
You could remove your hard drive and put it into another computer and boot from it. If there seems to be problems similar to those currently then it might just be a video driver issue / virus / something else. In this case it could just be a matter of wiping it and starting over. If the problem is fixed, then it's definitely a motherboard / RAM issue. Both of which I have no idea how to fix. This would require a trip to either a Geek Squad or other PC repair place.

[Naku]

I really don't know to answer your first question *Not on that one since it keeps putting it self to sleep mode* And I can't get it to turn off with just the button either. I have to flip the power switch. I know its not the hard drives cause I have had problem once before with one of them and it sounded like little men at work inside my computer. My dad thought it was a virus *cough* Old fart *Cough* he's use to typing things in by hand to get anywhere or to fix anything.

Besides when I did get in I thought it was a virus as well and rain Norton anti virus on it and it scanned 7 items and said everything was fine.

[shadow_X27]

Ok, I’ll try this again.

When you plug your monitor into your computer, where does it plug into? Does it go into a graphics card (usually toward the bottom the computer where the PCI slots are) or into a port on the motherboard (You can’t remove this).

If it goes to a graphics card, then it could be a graphics card / motherboard / RAM issue.
If it goes to the onboard, then it’s just a motherboard / RAM issue.

[Naku]

It plugs into the blue slot on there. I guess the graphic's card.

[hellzarmy]

go into your BIOS screen and let the comp just sit there for a bit.

if at any time the screen goes black/blank then you need a new monitor or a new backlight bulb for your LCD.

another way to figure out whats going on. get a flashlight, and when the screen goes blank/black again, shine the flashlight on the display. If the backlight bulb is out, you should see the text/picture when you shine the flashlight on it.

now, thats assuming that it is a LCD.

if this is a CRT monitor, same thing about booting to the BIOS. If the screen goes black its teh monitor.

If it doesnt tho, i would start looking at troubleshooting the videocard.

also she said she moved the GPU from a old system to this one. so unless im reading this wrong it is not a onboard GPU