[dyoolyan]

okay so when i got home two days ago, i turned my pc on and the monitor said, 'no signal detected.'
i tried restarting and tightening the wire connecting the cpu and the monitor but the same things are happening.
i took out my laptop and connected the monitor to it, and it worked...but again, still doesn't work for my cpu.
those technicians out there, what do you suggest i do?

[Mully]

Do you have 2 video cards? If so try plugging it into the other.. Your card could be busted though.

[dyoolyan]

what does a video card look like?

[Satqiel]

changing your resolution to a unsupported one can do that.



Hope it helps.

[Reyne]

Did you change something in the menu?

That happened to me last time I change from VGA to HDMI. I forgot to change that on the monitor menu so it kept saying "no signal".

[Buddhist]

Your video card is just what you plug the monitor into, it's unlikely that you have two of them. If you opened your PC up, it'd look something like this
, or maybe this

just don't confuse it with the sound card (if you even have one) and it's impossible to miss

This could be anything from the monitor's settings being off, to a broken video card, to a... broken motherboard or cpu? The problem is that your display is the thing not working, so it's hard to know what's actually broken.

[Mully]

I have 2 video cards because i have dual monitors but was just a suggestion.

[dyoolyan]

umm. thank you guys. problem is how do i know what's wrong?
thanks devin for the videocard pics, i get it now. i kinda think that mine is broken.

@reyne and satquiel-- um thanks but how do i fix it if that's what i did wrong?

[Satqiel]

Mully, on 02 August 2010 - 08:03 AM, said:

I have 2 video cards because i have dual monitors but was just a suggestion.

you can dual monitor with 1 video card.

dyoolyan said:

mm. thank you guys. problem is how do i know what's wrong?
thanks devin for the videocard pics, i get it now. i kinda think that mine is broken.

@reyne and satquiel-- um thanks but how do i fix it if that's what i did wrong?

If you have any other monitor you can connect to your computer and change it then switch back to the original monitor.

[Mully]

If i dual with one video card it would be the same thing on both monitors :/

[Satqiel]

Mully, on 03 August 2010 - 03:24 PM, said:

If i dual with one video card it would be the same thing on both monitors :/

ROFL!

[Buddhist]

Satqiel, on 04 August 2010 - 04:22 AM, said:

ROFL!

Well it's kind of true. You can also set the two monitors up to be a continuation of each other either by width or height, as I'm sure you know.

If you had 2 video cards, you could like... Play crysis on full settings on one monitor, while sculpting a 3d model that has 12 million polygons in zbrush on the other monitor...

DUNNO WHO'S DOING THAT BUT IT WOULD BE IMPRESSIVE!

edit: wait wait wait, chuck norris, the TK, is chu? my mind is blown

dyoolyan, on 03 August 2010 - 04:53 AM, said:

umm. thank you guys. problem is how do i know what's wrong?
thanks devin for the videocard pics, i get it now. i kinda think that mine is broken.

@reyne and satquiel-- um thanks but how do i fix it if that's what i did wrong?

Well, if you have another monitor that you can plug into your PC, do that. If you get a display, then the problem is almost certainly a setting, and your video card should be fine... If you plug in another monitor and you don't get a display then it's probably your video card haha.

I mean, I think the only real way to test your video card would be to put it into another PC that is otherwise completely healthy. But, assuming you can't do that, if the video card's fan isn't running, or something else is visibly wrong, you can pretty confidently assume that that's the problem.

Your computer seems to be running fine, right? You just get no display?

[Kris]

Buddhist, on 04 August 2010 - 09:05 AM, said:

Well it's kind of true. You can also set the two monitors up to be a continuation of each other either by width or height, as I'm sure you know.

If you had 2 video cards, you could like... Play crysis on full settings on one monitor, while sculpting a 3d model that has 12 million polygons in zbrush on the other monitor...

DUNNO WHO'S DOING THAT BUT IT WOULD BE IMPRESSIVE!

:$ i was running two cards for a while.... niether of them worth shit but i was using that for my dual screens but it just caused alot of problems

[dyoolyan]

damn cool. thanks guys. i don't have another monitor though. thanks anyway. yeah devin chuck norris=merlini=leigh

[Mully]

Buddhist, on 04 August 2010 - 03:05 PM, said:

Well it's kind of true. You can also set the two monitors up to be a continuation of each other either by width or height, as I'm sure you know.

If you had 2 video cards, you could like... Play crysis on full settings on one monitor, while sculpting a 3d model that has 12 million polygons in zbrush on the other monitor...

DUNNO WHO'S DOING THAT BUT IT WOULD BE IMPRESSIVE!

edit: wait wait wait, chuck norris, the TK, is chu? my mind is blown



Well, if you have another monitor that you can plug into your PC, do that. If you get a display, then the problem is almost certainly a setting, and your video card should be fine... If you plug in another monitor and you don't get a display then it's probably your video card haha.

I mean, I think the only real way to test your video card would be to put it into another PC that is otherwise completely healthy. But, assuming you can't do that, if the video card's fan isn't running, or something else is visibly wrong, you can pretty confidently assume that that's the problem.

Your computer seems to be running fine, right? You just get no display?

Like uh I can have say my desktop on the left screen whereas on the right i have my internet etc. I play my games on left basically like that but if i Ran crysis two and had both monitors running the FPS would lower thus a bit of lag, so you just close one off.

[dyoolyan]

OKAY BUDDHIST I CONNECTED MY LAPTOP TO THE MONITOR AND IT WORKED. WHAT DO I DO NEXT?

[Buddhist]

dyoolyan, on 06 August 2010 - 07:55 AM, said:

OKAY BUDDHIST I CONNECTED MY LAPTOP TO THE MONITOR AND IT WORKED. WHAT DO I DO NEXT?

Figure out if it's your video card that's broken :3. I don't really know how you can confirm without a second computer :3.

[dyoolyan]

i meant like when i connected the laptop to the monitor it worked just fine. but when i use the cpu again it would say 'no signal'

thanks anyway.

edited*
what would be a great video card? i am broken and i only have about 100 bucks for this shit, something even cheaper would do. i only play ragnarok and dota and just type for my papers and surf the net. though of course i would want to be able to at least triple client without lagging (if possible). links would be great, thanks

[Cloudsong]

dyoolyan, on 07 August 2010 - 01:04 AM, said:

i meant like when i connected the laptop to the monitor it worked just fine. but when i use the cpu again it would say 'no signal'

thanks anyway.

edited*
what would be a great video card? i am broken and i only have about 100 bucks for this shit, something even cheaper would do. i only play ragnarok and dota and just type for my papers and surf the net. though of course i would want to be able to at least triple client without lagging (if possible). links would be great, thanks

The only way to be sure it's your graphics card and not something else would be to switch out the graphics card, or if your motherboard has some kind of basic 'graphics acceleration' chip, you'd be able to plug your monitor into a different slot on the back of your pc and see if it gets a signal. If it did, you could be pretty darn sure it's your graphics card.

Assuming it IS your graphics card:
http://www.newegg.co...ics-Video-Cards

I've used newegg.com for the last two computers I've built, had no problems. You can get a pretty decent video card for 100$ on there, and if you choose not to go much cheaper than 100, you can get a card that should be able to handle more modern games like SC2 on reasonably high settings. I like the Radeon HD series, and they are usually lower wattage than Nvidia (or so I've heard), so you shouldn't need to worry about switching your power supply with it.

If your computer is more than two years old a 100$ graphics card is probably an upgrade for you.

[dyoolyan]

thanks a lot cloud.

edited
umm there were two things where i could plug my monitor cable into, and i tried the other one. nothing happened. how do i know if i have that graphic accelerator thing?