Monitor / graphics card
hanndav
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My monitor has been slowly getting worse and worse and yesterday it just couldn't cope with a normal screen. I bought a new monitor which I plugged in this morning.
The same thing seems to be happening. I can get into safe mode but in device manager there isnt even a listing for a monitor.
OK so now I'm thinking that it's not the monitor that's died but the graphics card?
Any ideas?
Thanks
My monitor has been slowly getting worse and worse and yesterday it just couldn't cope with a normal screen. I bought a new monitor which I plugged in this morning.
The same thing seems to be happening. I can get into safe mode but in device manager there isnt even a listing for a monitor.
OK so now I'm thinking that it's not the monitor that's died but the graphics card?
Any ideas?
Thanks
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Does your PC have on-board graphics that you can try the monitor on?
Also if you have access to a friends PC you could try the monitor there.
TW
What symptoms are you seeing? What is 'getting worse' and what is not 'normal'?
Even if you could see a setting in Device Manager it wouldn't help for a monitor.
More information needed!
That means, your PC, specifically the graphics card though could be a power supply issue or some other fault that is affecting graphics performance. Or it could even be the cable between PC and monitor.
Easy way to check the cable is to swap it for another one. Or if you are using VGA swap to DVI (or vice versa) if both formats are supported by the graphics card and monitor.
Is the monitor plugged into a motherboard socket or a separate graphics card in a slot on the motherboard? If the latter does the PC have on board graphics? If it does then try using that (may have to temporarily remove the slot in card). If that is OK then it will point at the slot in card being faulty.
I used all the new cables with the new monitor.
What do you mean it 'can't handle it?' Please be specific! :eek:
It might just be a refresh rate issue which is easily fixed.
Swapping out the graphics shouldn't have a noticeable effect on your shutdown time. Is it slower than before?
I removed the old drivers before installing but there was an error message on installing the new driver, something about C++?
I think I will do a clean install, it's been a while anyway.
Thanks again.