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| Thread ID: 27740 | 2002-12-01 21:50:00 | Lost video?? | Warren (875) | Press F1 |
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| 102501 | 2002-12-01 21:50:00 | Hi all We are running a Athlon 1400 with a Nvidia Gforce4 MX420 card aboard . All was well till the other day when our son booted up. We now have nothing on the screen,it goes thru the boot up process and thru the splash screen and then nothing,the monitor even goes in to standby mode. I know it's not an operating system failure as we can access it thru out network. Is a new card needed ? Any help would be appreciated. |
Warren (875) | ||
| 102502 | 2002-12-01 22:01:00 | What OS are you using?(people frequently seem to leave this vital info out.) Sounds to me like the refresh rate may be set incorrectly (too high probably) for the monitor to handle. Switching to safe mode (or VGA mode in the case of windws 2000/xp) would allow you to at least see what is going on. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 102503 | 2002-12-01 23:05:00 | We are running Win 98 se But have tried another monitor with it and it does the same thing But as you say ..i haven't booted up in safe mode yet Might try that and see what happens |
Warren (875) | ||
| 102504 | 2002-12-01 23:31:00 | Right ... Booted in safe mode and it seemed ok Cut the refresh mode back and the settings to the lowest It booted up ok then when i tried to up the desktop settings it did the same thing again Do you think it might be a good idea to delete and relaod the drivers? Hmmm....this is a curly one for me |
Warren (875) | ||
| 102505 | 2002-12-01 23:46:00 | Yep. Use the official ones from www.nvidia.com Try and find your correct monitor drivers too. Have a look at: go.to |
gibler (49) | ||
| 102506 | 2002-12-03 08:56:00 | Hey Gibler Thanks for your help yesterday We ended up formatting the HDD and restarting but......... After doing that i read the video card manual and found it under a FAQ Silly me Know better now Anyway Thanks again for your help |
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