Re: No Monitor...!
From: JAX (slipslide_at_pop.not)
Date: 07/23/04
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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 02:11:25 -0700
Hi Chris,
It says, "press any key to continue". I don't find that key on my keyboard,
what do I do? <grin>
JAX
"Chris Purvis" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2acc01c47093$4eddaaf0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Funny how such a topic can become so complex if we let it.
> By card, we mean something occupying a PCI or AGP slot. As
> opposed to a video chipset built into the motherboard with
> a monitor connection also built into the motherboard. When
> you think about it in this sense, not all computers
> actually have a video card. My computer at home is set up
> this way. (No card, monitor hooked into the motherboard)
>
> It's all in how you take the term "Card".
>
> For "CPU", I can see how this can cause confusion. Many
> people refer to it this way, however. I work in a help
> desk, so I usually pick up the intended meaning a little
> easier. People tend to refer to their computers as hard
> drives, boxes, CPUs. Sometimes I find when I ask them to
> check something on their "Computer", such as whether the
> hard drive light is flashing, (I'm issuing a command to
> make the HDD active for a moment to test whether it's
> responsive) they tell me it's not. Later I come to find
> they were looking at their monitor.
>
> Chris
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Just so you know, your computer must always have a video
> card. You just
> >have never hooked a monitor up to one. And your CPU is a
> little "chip"
> >inside your computer. You may want to call it the tower
> or box or case
> >or something like that instead ;)
> >
> >----
> >Nathan McNulty
> >
> >
> >anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> >> Thank you all...I am pleased to announce I am sending
> >> this post through my grandather's CPU.
> >> I learned something tonight, I have never had a Video
> >> card on my CPU so I didn't know that you needed to hook
> >> the monitor up differently. Now I know and have
> >> successfully updated this computer....
> >> Ta! :o}
> >>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>armed with the last two posts...I have looked at the
> >>
> >> back
> >>
> >>>of his CPU again and indeed, there does seem to be a
> >>>video card in the back...lo and behold...there also
> >>
> >> seems
> >>
> >>>to be a place for the monitor cord to hook up.
> >>>I am about to turn off this CPU and see what I can do
> >>>with his now...
> >>>Thanks all :o}
> >>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>I think Mr. JAX took your term "CPU" a little too
> >>>>literally and thought you were swapping the processors
> >>>>inside the computers.
> >>>>
> >>>>Another suggestion is to check that the pins in the
> >>>>monitor cable are not bent. If they are you will need
> >>
> >> to
> >>
> >>>>straighten them out with some needle nose pliers. Be
> >>>>careful not to break them off if this is the case.
> >>>>
> >>>>Chris
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>>Goodness, what a terse and condescending reply...at
> >>
> >> any
> >>
> >>>>rate, I apologize, I have a neuro-muscular disorder
> and
> >>>>sometimes it goofs around with my short term memory,
> at
> >>>>times it means that I get my words mixed up.
> >>>>
> >>>>>What I have said is that I have taken the CORDS out
> of
> >>>
> >>>my
> >>>
> >>>>CPU (power,monitor, keyboard, mouse and LAN) and
> >>>
> >>>connected
> >>>
> >>>>them to his CPU and tried to start up.
> >>>>
> >>>>>The monitor simply stays blank...
> >>>>>--
> >>>>>If sponges didn't grow in the ocean...how much more
> >>>
> >>>water
> >>>
> >>>>would there be ?!?
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>"JAX" wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>What do you mean, "Took all of the connectors out of
> >>>
> >>>my
> >>>
> >>>>CPU, plugged them
> >>>>
> >>>>>>into his and tried to start up" All processors are
> >>>>
> >>>>either socket or slot. It
> >>>>
> >>>>>>is a one connection deal for the processor. Perhaps,
> >>>>
> >>>>someone else may
> >>>>
> >>>>>>understand what you are saying, but I don't. If you
> >>>>
> >>>>post back to this thread
> >>>>
> >>>>>>with a little better detail perhaps someone will be
> >>>>
> >>>>able to offer some
> >>>>
> >>>>>>fruitful suggestions.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>JAX
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>"PoohsHunnyBee"
> >>>>
> >>>><PoohsHunnyBee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> >>>
> >>>message
> >>>
> >>>>>>news:66AB2857-D7CE-421E-B701-
> >>>>
> >>>>7822BE9EA519@microsoft.com...
> >>>>
> >>>>>>>Hi, am trying to work on my grandfather's computer
> >>>
> >>>at
> >>>
> >>>>my house. Took all
> >>>>
> >>>>>>of the connectors out of my CPU, plugged them into
> >>>
> >>>his
> >>>
> >>>>and tried to start
> >>>>
> >>>>>>up...cannot get the monitor to kick in. There IS
> >>>
> >>>power
> >>>
> >>>>to it, but windows
> >>>>
> >>>>>>isn't recognizing the monitor maybe?!?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Both computers are running XP.
> >>>>>>>Please help :o}
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>.
> >>>
> >.
> >
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