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    monitor not working with vga

    ive just unplugged all my pc cos i was having new floors put down ,

    and when ive just set it up again the moniters not working. The pc is booting up fine

    but the screen says no signal then just goes black,

    i had the same problem when a pc repair guy came round and used the pc moniter to

    connect my laptop, and when he put the vga cable back in the pc tower it was doing the

    same as now, but he just did summit and got it working

    anyone got any ideas

    whats going wrong?


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    re: monitor not working with vga

    I had a monitor that did that, turned out to be one of the pins in VGA connector was pushed back into the casing. I bodged it up by pulling the pin back with pliers, but changed the cable in the end. I have also seen a monitor with one of the pins bent around and against the metal case, that was also carefully straightened, and worked fine.

    Of course your monitor problem may not be anything to do with the above :-(

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    re: monitor not working with vga

    Quote Originally Posted by bazcor View Post
    I had a monitor that did that, turned out to be one of the pins in VGA connector was pushed back into the casing. I bodged it up by pulling the pin back with pliers, but changed the cable in the end. I have also seen a monitor with one of the pins bent around and against the metal case, that was also carefully straightened, and worked fine.

    Of course your monitor problem may not be anything to do with the above :-(

    Barry
    the pins are all fine

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    re: monitor not working with vga

    I think you have to go into the monitors menu and set it up for digital input or analog input.

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    re: monitor not working with vga

    I agree with Barry in that your best option would be to replace the monitor cable, especially as you have had this problem with it before. Just because the pins on the connectors are OK it doesn't mean to say that the wiring in the cable itself is. One or more of the wires may have a break somewhere which can cause this problem, especially if the cable is tightly folded and bound for the sake of cable management.

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    re: monitor not working with vga

    im not to familiar with the vga cables because its not my computer .i use hdmi for mine

    and i was just wondering once the vga is connected both sides should it usually show

    on the moniter just without audio ?unlike HDMI

    ill try again tomoz see if it works ,if not just buy one

    but its only about year old the pc and the vga cable has only been unplugged twice

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    re: monitor not working with vga

    Does this monitor support both HDMI and analog? If so, I believe you need to set that up in the monitor menu were you also set contract and brightness etc.

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    re: monitor not working with vga

    Quote Originally Posted by avgwarhawk View Post
    Does this monitor support both HDMI and analog? If so, I believe you need to set that up in the monitor menu were you also set contract and brightness etc.
    no vga and dvi

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    re: monitor not working with vga

    Just a thought...perhaps the bulb in the monitor has blown out!

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    re: monitor not working with vga

    Quote Originally Posted by avgwarhawk View Post
    Just a thought...perhaps the bulb in the monitor has blown out!
    re-read this please avg (its not meant to be taken offensively )
    Quote Originally Posted by arsehley View Post
    ive just unplugged all my pc cos i was having new floors put down ,

    and when ive just set it up again the moniters not working. The pc is booting up fine

    but the screen says no signal then just goes black,

    i had the same problem when a pc repair guy came round and used the pc moniter to

    connect my laptop, and when he put the vga cable back in the pc tower it was doing the

    same as now, but he just did summit and got it working

    anyone got any ideas

    whats going wrong?

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