Re: New Monitor/Trouble Booting

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Are you sure that your video card is completely seated and working? I
interpret your description as an indication that the monitor is receiving no
signal from the PC - sometimes when people swap monitors they jiggle the
video card out of the slot just enough to kill the connection. This is one
possible cause of your problem.

"webejammin" <masters444(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote in message
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> Sincerely would appreciate any help... Running XP Pro, fully updated,
> along
> with Ad-Aware, Spybot, Microsoft Anti-Spyware and AVG. Had a old generic
> CRT
> monitor go bad, replaced with a newer generic CRT monitor that I know
> works.
> After plugging in, tried to boot up, monitor comes up with the self test
> and
> states it's working, but to check PC and signal cable. Reseated signal
> cable
> and tried to boot again, same message. Tried booting with an ultimate boot
> disk for all formats as well as my OEM restore disk and still can't boot
> up.
> Each time I have to hold down the power switch to shut down. How should I
> proceed from here?
>
> Many Thanks!!!
>
> MAK.
>
>


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