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(Resolved) Help please : Monitor loses signal on boot and driver install

Red Hawk

Red Hawk

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I just moved my PC (the one in my sig) to a new house. Upon arriving and hooking everything back up, it started exhibiting odd behavior. After the Windows boot screen but before the login screen, the signal to the monitor cut out and wouldn't return. The PC was able to successfully boot into safe mode, wherein I ran Display Driver Uninstaller and CCleaner and rebooted. The PC booted without display drivers no problem. I tried reinstalling the AMD drivers, only for the signal to the monitor to drop as the display driver installed, and if I rebooted after that it resumed dropping the signal after the boot screen. I have repeated this process a couple times with the same results.

I don't think it's my graphics card, because I removed it, wiped all display drivers (AMD and Intel), reset the both the BIOS and the CMOS with the jumper, and attempted to install the Intel HD Graphics 3000 driver (I had it disabled in the BIOS before all this). The HD Graphics 3000 had the exact same behavior - dropping the monitor signal during the display driver install, and rebooting after giving it a minute to complete the install resulted in the signal dropping after the boot screen.

Any ideas what could be causing this?
 
I can't say for sure, but from what you've described, it's probably your monitor. It may have gotten damaged during the move perhaps, or it's near the end of its life? It's extremely unlikely that both your on die GPU and your discrete GPU are bad. I've had problems in the past where a monitor booted up fine, but once it got to desktop or the log in screen, it would display signal corruption, ie red, green flickering. And then one day, it wouldn't display any thing at all which meant it finally gave up is ghost 😱

That usually happened with LCD monitors back in the day, but LED monitors last much longer.
 
Well, reseating the monitor's DVI port did the trick. No issues now. I feel a bit dumb.
 
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So I bought a new monitor yesterday and overnighted it so that it arrived today. The monitor is a ViewSonic XG2703-GS 2, and so far, everything is great. It being a more modern monitor foregoes the DVI-D connector completely just like the Titan Xp. This is my first high refresh rate Gsync monitor, and so far, I am very impressed. Now I finally see what all the hype was about. 😉
 
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