My PC killed itself, help!

2007-02-21 01:06:25

#1

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6653

So, I'm playing a bit of zombiemod, enjoying the usual pump shotgun action, when all of a sudden my monitor goes blank. Completely blank. Nothing noticable happened from beforehand. Now my monitor refuses to display absolutely anything (even the static not-so-quite-black black) But it does react properly to being connected to a PC (standby and on light works as it should, turn the PC on light goes green turn it off light goes orange)

I've done the usual switching PC's and such and it IS the monitor that's broken.

What's going on?!

2007-02-21 01:18:25

#2

DonFck: Hibernator; +3,227|6631|Finland

Do you have a CRT or LCD/TFT-display?

Although I'd say that the Graph-card is to blame. Overheat -> No longer able to display high res?

Ya, that's my guess. Fried GPU.

Last edited by DonFck (2007-02-21 01:19:40)

I need around tree fiddy.

2007-02-21 01:20:52

#3

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6653

SargeV1.4 wrote:
I've done the usual switching PC's and such and it IS the monitor that's broken.

2007-02-21 01:24:00

#4

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6653

and it's a BenQ T705

2007-02-21 01:28:38

#5

DonFck: Hibernator; +3,227|6631|Finland

SargeV1.4 wrote:
SargeV1.4 wrote:
I've done the usual switching PC's and such and it IS the monitor that's broken.

I are teh crappy reader, I managed to misread it as "I've done the usual (blank) and such (blank) the monitor (blank) broken?" I suck

The monitor reacts to power-on, you say? If it's a CRT, I find it hard to believe that the cathode ray tube would fry without smoking or going off in an inferno.. If it's a TFT/LCD, might the backlight have gone?

Signal cable pins? Nah.. Monitor cirquit board?

I'm just brainstorming here, I've got no idea what it is. Bumping the topic and throwing out ideas so you get it solved.

Edit: Ok, its a flat panel, scratch the CRT-talk

Last edited by DonFck (2007-02-21 01:31:03)

I need around tree fiddy.

2007-02-21 01:29:05

#6

TeeZ75: Member; +2|6378

SargeV1.4 wrote:
it does react properly to being connected to a PC (standby and on light works as it should, turn the PC on light goes green turn it off light goes orange)

if you have a lcd panel its just broke, I had the same problem with one, still in warranty and they changed it, problem was a burned diode on the bord, cheaper to get a new one that to replace that

2007-02-21 01:32:42

#7

Poncho: and I'm not a raincoat...; +91|6707|NL

i once had my monitor not working, i just changed the kabel that goes from the PC to TFT with an old kabel and now it still works.

edit: to see if your computer and videocard still works you can hook your pc up to an old monitor.

Last edited by Poncho (2007-02-21 01:34:51)

2007-02-21 01:33:56

#8

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6653

The monitor's one and a half years old, think its still got warranty?

Just wondering if such monitors come with 2 years warranty

They should

they do

dont they?

2007-02-21 01:36:47

#9

TeeZ75: Member; +2|6378

check your receipt, if you don't have that you don't have warranty anyways

2007-02-21 01:41:21

#10

R3v4n: We shall beat to quarters!; +433|6486|Melbourne

I had the same problem at a LAN party once, Turns out my Gfx card had come a little unplugged. pushed it in again and it worked.

~ Do you not know that in the service … one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?

2007-02-21 01:42:24

#11

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6653

I am indeed frantically looking for said receipt

and Poncho the MONITOR is dead. You turn it on, no startup screen. I press any of the buttons to configure it, no menu. I turn my PC on, the screen stays dead black.

2007-02-21 07:56:35

#12

The Stillhouse Kid: Licensed Televulcanologist; +126|6641|Deep In The South Of Texas

It's got a 3 year warranty:

ftp://12.145.38.159/warranties/bqa_warranty_lcd.pdf

2007-02-21 08:16:23

#13

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6493|N. Ireland

He turned me into a zombie several times last night, I did it. I'm sorry, sarge.

2007-02-21 08:22:13

#14

Mason4Assassin444: retired; +552|6662|USA

Its plugged in right?

Damn EMO monitors.....

2007-02-21 08:22:15

#15

crimson_grunt: Shitty Disposition (apparently); +214|6654|Teesside, UK

R3v4n wrote:
I had the same problem at a LAN party once, Turns out my Gfx card had come a little unplugged. pushed it in again and it worked.

I was about to suggest that. Sounds like the same thing i experienced a while ago.

2007-02-21 08:43:30

#16

OrangeHound: Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...; +1,335|6649|Washington DC

crimson_grunt wrote:
R3v4n wrote:
I had the same problem at a LAN party once, Turns out my Gfx card had come a little unplugged. pushed it in again and it worked.
I was about to suggest that. Sounds like the same thing i experienced a while ago.

Reading comprehension, FTW

(He has done the basic diagnosis ... it is the monitor ... not the GPU)

If it is a lower cost monitor, it is probably a disposable issue. Cheaper to replace than repair.

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