Vista - Monitor Loses signal on boot up

I have a Viewsonic LCD monitor. i just put a new pc together with an XFXForce
8600GT video card. The problem is when i boot the pc i see the bios screen
fine. it's not until i see 'Micrsoft Corporation' and am about to see the
status bar going back and forth that the screen goes blank and i then see 'No
sginal'. I'm connected using a DVI-I cable. If i unplug the cable from either
the card or monitor and plug it back in i then get video. I sent the monitor
to Viewsonic which they said they fixed a problem. hmmm anyway i'm still
seeing this proble. If i use a VGA cable with a DVI adapter i won't have this
problem. While the LCD monitor was away i used an old CRT monitor with a VGA
cable and had no problem.

Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated. This is driving me nuts.

I have the same monitor and tried every fix available....non worked.
The problem is in ViewSonic's defective internal power supply unit.

The only solution is to purchase a new monitor.

This is what I purchased and it is fantastic:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824001236

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"ron" wrote:

I have a Viewsonic LCD monitor. i just put a new pc together with an XFXForce
8600GT video card. The problem is when i boot the pc i see the bios screen
fine. it's not until i see 'Micrsoft Corporation' and am about to see the
status bar going back and forth that the screen goes blank and i then see 'No
sginal'. I'm connected using a DVI-I cable. If i unplug the cable from either
the card or monitor and plug it back in i then get video. I sent the monitor
to Viewsonic which they said they fixed a problem. hmmm anyway i'm still
seeing this proble. If i use a VGA cable with a DVI adapter i won't have this
problem. While the LCD monitor was away i used an old CRT monitor with a VGA
cable and had no problem.

Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated. This is driving me nuts.

DId you try having them repair the power supply? how do you know the power
supply is the problem? i'm not about to buy another monitor without first
trying everything to fix it or sell it which will be hard. Samsung's are nice
monitors. i have an old crt and it still works.

"ron" wrote:

This is what I did to try and resolve the same problem with my ViewSonic monitor:

- Installed a different video card
- Installed a different DVI cable
- Installed a new computer power supply unit
- Installed a different monitor power supply cable
- Tried monitor with two other computers running Windows XP

None of the above worked. Bought new monitor and problem went away.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"ron"wrote:

DId you try having them repair the power supply? how do you know the power
supply is the problem? i'm not about to buy another monitor without first
trying everything to fix it or sell it which will be hard. Samsung's are nice
monitors. i have an old crt and it still works.

"ron" wrote:

It wasn't until i went to a DVI cable that i saw this problem. the new video
card only has dvi jacks so when i used this monitor on my old pc using a vga
cable it worked fine. i tried different cables also with no luck. the reason
i'm trying to nail down the source of the problem is because trying differnt
things gets expensive. i do appreciate your help. i had the same thoughts
about this monitor also. i want to be able to go back to them with something
definitive.

thanks again

"ron" wrote:

Had same issue running, ACER with dual DVI on XFXForce GTS 8600.

Made sure my Monitor settings where set for Digital and not analog. Then
booted to safe mode and installed drivers. Has worked fine ever since.

Bryan

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1C1335A0-7B28-41A0-AE06-1E8AF66C4D10@xxxxxx

Viewsonic VX922 and Nvidia 8600GT woes
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r193...ia-8600GT-woes


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"ron" wrote:

It wasn't until i went to a DVI cable that i saw this problem. the new video
card only has dvi jacks so when i used this monitor on my old pc using a vga
cable it worked fine. i tried different cables also with no luck. the reason
i'm trying to nail down the source of the problem is because trying differnt
things gets expensive. i do appreciate your help. i had the same thoughts
about this monitor also. i want to be able to go back to them with something
definitive.

thanks again

"ron" wrote:

If your new card only has DVI-I connectors then DVI-I to VGA dongles should
have come with it or are at least available for it since the following spec
says your card does support VGA out Check your card user's manual for
details

http://www.xfxforce.com/web/product/...986#openLarger
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"ron" <ron@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:93336FD4-C85F-4A2F-B68C-8B7E026AE799@xxxxxx

interesting link. that sounds exactly like what i'm going thru

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

It did come with a dvi to vga adapter which works fine when attached. i tried
using it on the dvi cable to attach to the vga port on the monitior and on a
vga cable attaching to the dvi port on the card. both work fine. it's dvi to
dvi that doesn't work. this is something else isn't it?

"JW" wrote: