Author Topic: Monitor Boot Problems (Read 307 times)

Iceman24 · « **on:** August 17, 2005, 10:39:59 AM »

I am running a new Gateway PC and I installed a ATI 700Pro vid card, made sure the card was installed correctly and installed all the software... It works and the new graphics are great but now I am having a boot problem... When I turn on my PC, I can here the hardrive running and the lights all come on, my joysticks light up, which is telling me that all of that is booting correctly, but my monitor doesn't come on... If I reset it a few time eventually it will boot correctly, usually 3-4 attempts... I'm not a comp genius or anything but it sounds like I am having some sort of hardware conflict or something... any help would be appreciated

Ohio43 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 17, 2005, 10:52:07 AM »

Sounds like your monitor is "petering out".

AKDogg · « **Reply #2 on:** August 17, 2005, 11:16:22 AM »

Is your old video card an onboard/ intergrated graphics on motherboard?

BTW · « **Reply #3 on:** August 17, 2005, 11:45:19 AM »

This might sound obvious, but have you tried turning your monitor off and then on again? Sometimes my monitor wont come on after the boot, but I just switch it of and back on, and there it is.

Iceman24 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 17, 2005, 12:56:15 PM »

yes i believe the old 1 is on the motheboard

yes i have tried turning it off and then on again and using a diff monitor, its definately not the monitor, there has to be some kind of boot conflict or something, i'm amateur at computers so kinda learning as I go... Its just strange that everything else boots up accept the monitor and then when i reset it a few times it finally boots up correctly... Also if I do a restart I don't have any problems at all, restarts work perfect, its only when I do shutdown... so to get around it I have just been hibernating it... Any ideas on how to fix would be greatly appreciated

AKDogg · « **Reply #5 on:** August 17, 2005, 01:30:44 PM »

O, U need to go into bios and makesure that the onboard video card is turned off and/or it looks for your AGP slot first, unless u got a PCI video card. If u have the integrated video turned off alrdy via the bios then U might look for a bios update for your motherboard. There might be an issue with your bios that it isn't turning off your intergrated video sometimes and comflicting with your new card.

JTs · « **Reply #6 on:** August 17, 2005, 01:31:58 PM »

if you didnt remove a video card its on board. go into your bios and disable the onboard video.

Iceman24 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 18, 2005, 09:49:27 AM »

thanks for advice will try when I get home this afternoon and let ya'll know.... Thanks and

~~Iceman24~~

Skuzzy · « **Reply #8 on:** August 18, 2005, 10:13:35 AM »

Be sure to remove the driver for the onboard video before disabling it in the system BIOS.

Iceman24 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 22, 2005, 02:20:54 PM »

I disabled the secondary vid card or the one attched to the motherboard in control panel / hardware setup or something like that, didn't fix the problem, If I delete it, when I restart I get a lil message saying that new hardware has been found and installed, so right now I just have it disabled, I went into the bios area and cannot find anything about vid cards or display drivers in the boot menu anywhere, even went into system setup in bios and couldn't find it, is it called something else in there, I think as long as its disabled, and then I change the bios it should correct the prob... on the other hand, while playing aces high, the game runs much smoother now and images appear a lil sharper and bigger, so thats a definate plus... I know there has to be something in bios about it, does anyone know specifically what its called... Thanks in advance