Can a video card blow a monitor.

[alanwest09872]

I know its a wierd question but i have gone through 2 monitors in the last 30 days. I never had a problem with either one of them till i hooked them up to the 8800gts 320 mb graphics card i have.

1. the crt i had started to flicker and bow in alot and now its dead
2. the lcd just wont turn on anymore the little blue lite comes on but thats it. I tried with another computer and same thing.

 

[xtknight]

It's possible. The video card has the capability of uploading firmware to the monitor. If this corrupted firmware (EDID) got sent (software bug), the monitor's firmware could be damaged.

It's probably fixable with a little experimentation. If you didn't hook up both DVI and VGA on the LCD then you may be able to dump the VGA firmware (which is separate) thru another PC, change analog flag to digital and upload it to the DVI port. Just cloning the VGA firmware to the DVI firmware would probably be enough. You may be able to do this with PowerStrip or DVI Recover (google).

Since it's not your fault, I'd assume this would be covered either through the video card manufacturer or monitor manufacturer, so I would email your video card manufacturer first before voiding any warranties.

You can try hooking up the CRT to a video card and set the driver to ignore the EDID and simply use the general timing formula. Again, PowerStrip will be able to do this. That way you could test if the CRT worked. I don't know if this would work with the LCD.

 

[alanwest09872]

the evga is pleading the 5th they have no idea whats goin on and gateway said they would call me back in an hour or so. still waiting ;(

do i need to run powerstip or dvi recover on the pc thats broken or can i hook the monitor up to a different pc and do it?

 

[xtknight]

Hook it up to a different PC and do it.

 

[alanwest09872]

tried it and it didnt work. I bought a cheap monitor from the salvation army im goin to run that for the next 2 weeeks and see if this one breaks also. gate way is goin to replace my monitor though woot woot

gateway's customer service was they best i have ever had. They had me call a few different places but as soon as i got where i needed to be they where more then willing to help me out. /bow gateway

and ty xtknight for trying to help it is much appreciated