video/monitor

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friends pc has a sylvania flat screen monitor with pci vid. card.turns pc on only to see a blank screen.it gives the post video error beeps.reseat the card,check connections restart
same thing occurs.change monitor to gateway crt;boots with no trouble.move gateway monitor to a usable position;now it doesn't boot and the screen is blank;post error beeps are back. both monitors worked with the pc prior to this.will try a swap of vid cards.any other ideas will be appreciated.

[NooNoo]

Blink if you are getting 3 beeps (on award bios) it doesn't matter what monitor you plug in, the video card in the machine is either badly seated or dying.

It COULD be a bad cable to your monitor - but in my experience bad cables produce no video error beeps, just a blank screen!

Changing video card is your only option - it could, however, be worse, it could be the slot on the motherboard board that is bad....

[Garak]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by NooNoo:
<strong>Blink if you are getting 3 beeps (on award bios) it doesn't matter what monitor you plug in, the video card in the machine is either badly seated or dying.

It COULD be a bad cable to your monitor - but in my experience bad cables produce no video error beeps, just a blank screen!

Changing video card is your only option - it could, however, be worse, it could be the slot on the motherboard board that is bad....</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">agreed...

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noonoo,garak thanks for the advice.will try the swap and/or slot change.noonoo by the way i can attest to your slogan.

[kato]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by NooNoo:
<strong>Blink if you are getting 3 beeps (on award bios) it doesn't matter what monitor you plug in, the video card in the machine is either badly seated or dying.

It COULD be a bad cable to your monitor - but in my experience bad cables produce no video error beeps, just a blank screen!

Changing video card is your only option - it could, however, be worse, it could be the slot on the motherboard board that is bad....</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">not always. I have seen more than a few that would give the post video error beeps when a MONITOR wasn't properly plugged into the video card. Don't know why this happens. It doesn't make sense to me, but I've seen it.

[Radical Dreamer]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by kato:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by NooNoo:
<strong>Blink if you are getting 3 beeps (on award bios) it doesn't matter what monitor you plug in, the video card in the machine is either badly seated or dying.

It COULD be a bad cable to your monitor - but in my experience bad cables produce no video error beeps, just a blank screen!

Changing video card is your only option - it could, however, be worse, it could be the slot on the motherboard board that is bad....</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">not always. I have seen more than a few that would give the post video error beeps when a MONITOR wasn't properly plugged into the video card. Don't know why this happens. It doesn't make sense to me, but I've seen it.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yup, I've seen weirder things happen, such as the k6-2 thats sitting in my corner using an Abit board that will not post correctly if the monitor is not turned on before the machine is