monitor problems, would appreciate any help.

AFK

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Hello, all. I am having problems with my monitor.

Here are the symptoms:

Turn on the computer and the monitor properly shows the DOS start-up process. Then it starts to show the Win-Xp startup screen. When the computer boots to windows, the monitor turns black and does not work from then on.

Any ideas on what's going on?

The monitor is the Sony-Trinitron GDM-17SE2T
 

jcmkk

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Mabey your windows resolution is set too high. Try booting into safe mode.
 

SonicTron

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Sounds like either an improper refresh rate or unsupported resolution.

Safe mode ---> changing refresh/resolution to default

That SHOULD fix it.

Maybe your monitor is unable to show color
 

AFK

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is there any way to change the resolution without going into safe mode? It doesn't display a picture in safemode either.. just in DOS.

The OS is WinXP