help with monitor problem

[alent1234]

99% sure that my monitor just died, but I would like a 2nd opinion. Until yesterday i was running an A2SL or whatever mobo with a P3 933 and a ATI Rage Pro. My Ti4600 died and I was too cheap to buy a new card so i scavenged one from work. A friend at work gives me his FX5200 to try out if i want to buy it. It worked fine yesterday, except the picture suddenly started getting darker until the monitor went black. I turned it off and on and it would be OK.

fast forward to today. I come home and the screen is black. Turn it off and on and picture comes back, but all screwed up and then goes off again in 10 seconds. I reboot and then all i get is a thin vertical line. Put the ATI back in there and no picture at all.

PC sounds like it boots properly. From a cod start the power light on the monitor goes from amber to green and you can hear the HD work like the PC is starting.

 

[huesmann]

Try both vid cards in another PC.

 

[nineball9]

A thin vertical line on your monitor would indicate a problem with the horiz circuits or possibly the power supplies or yoke. Can you display any OSD menus via the monitor's front panel? If you can see OSD menus, or even just a full raster, the above circuits are working.

Lugging a monitor around is a chore but try it on another system. You might want to start by trying VGA mode first.

Good luck!

 

[imported_raybay]

That is generally a video card problem, not a montor problem. You are going to have to invest in some decent parts, or you are going to coming to this forum every half hour. Until you get it straight, buy five different refurbished video cards from www.computergeeks.com, uses parts bins, or elsewhere... both PCI and AGP so you have some comparison cards available.