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Monitor failure?

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littletemple

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Can a mobo or video card make a monitor go dead? Just built new system, everything working, rebooted to finish installation, and nothing. The monitor now appears dead. There is green light denoting power but can't access the constrast/brightness etc....that are on the monitor itself which also has lights. Those lights do not go on. The screen is completely black. Mobo's fault if it's even possible?
 
Sounds to me that your monitors still stuck in the power savings mode. First off, is the new pc that you built even posting after the reboot. ?

Rain
 
No, it's not posting at all. No beeps. I tried plugging in the monitor to another computer and still nothing. Can the monitor be broken because I'm having problems with my motherboard. First, my system did not post. Then i took it out of the case, and it posted. So i put it back in, it started up fine. Put in w2k to install. It requested a reboot, i did so, and now it's not booting again. It's an ecs k7s5a with athlon xp1600+, with enlight 7237 case with 340w ps. The monitor has power but the lights to say which settings you are on(contrast/brightness/etc....) don't light up when you push the buttons on the monitor. Can it damage the monitor like that?
 
Most likely your monitor is fine. Its just stuck in power savings mode and will stay that way untill you connect it up to a working pc. Yes there is possibility that the monitor may have been damaged but I think its very unlikely at this stage. You claim that it posted when it was removed from the case. Sound like a grounding issue. Reseat the mainboard again and do it slowly and make sure you have all the tray standoffs installed and they match to your motherboard formfactor and remove any uneeded tray standoffs that may be already attached to the mainboard tray.

Rain
 
How would I know which tray standoffs to leave in and which to take out? And which kind to use?
I plugged the monitor into a working pc and booted up. The monitor came on, saw windows booting up. I walked out of the room and back and it was back to black again. Weird.
 
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