Wndows upgrade causes problems

mikeanywhere · 13-09-2007 3:54pm #1

One day using my destop nice and fine, I see the automatic upgrades and let them continue as usual. The following day I went to use the machine and for some reason the screen wont show anything. I remember seeing one of the upgrades was for the graphics card.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spud83 · 13-09-2007 4:14pm

Did you try start it in Safe Mode?

AlmightyCushion · 13-09-2007 5:05pm

Your graphics card may have come loose.

Edit: nah I doubt that is it. That would show something on the screen saying that there is no input.

mikeanywhere · 15-09-2007 4:01pm

alanmurphy83 wrote:

Did you try start it in Safe Mode?

Wouldnt make any difference mode you were in. For one you wouldnt be able to see what you were doing as nothing comes on screen anyway. Appreciate the thought tho

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Your graphics card may have come loose.

Edit: nah I doubt that is it. That would show something on the screen saying that there is no input.

I did wander if it was that but alas I came to the same conclusion

Any other bright ideas (please)???

mukki · 15-09-2007 4:36pm

can you see bios post messages and and xp loading up while you boot up??

if you can then the new drivers might have set too high a res for your screen (or old res with higher refresh rate). so "safe mode" or "VGA mode" will probably work

if not then it has to be a hardware problem, so power off, open and re-seat every card and cable you safely can

AlmightyCushion · 15-09-2007 11:10pm

Have you tried the monitor on another computer. It may be fooked.

mikeanywhere · 23-09-2007 8:19am

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Have you tried the monitor on another computer. It may be fooked.

I am away on my hols and wont be able to check it out until a week today - thanks for the suggestions!!

mikeanywhere · 03-10-2007 11:43pm

AlmightyCushion wrote:

Have you tried the monitor on another computer. It may be fooked.

Just to let you know the monitor works fine on another computer so the nxt step is to change the graphics card.

Anyone know where I can source some semi decent ones from??

Slymonster · 03-10-2007 11:59pm

You should try Komplett.ie or elara.ie
they both have a decent selection and decent prices.

Do you know what kind of video card slot that ya have?

mikeanywhere · 04-10-2007 1:04pm

Slymonster wrote:

You should try Komplett.ie or elara.ie
they both have a decent selection and decent prices.

Do you know what kind of video card slot that ya have?

Thanks for the suggestions Monster and I have no idea what type it is as I havent opened the box yet. I will do that probably in the next two weeks as I am shooting 3 weddings over the next 7 days in two countries so pretty busy sorting that out.

Cheers again

Mike

Wndows upgrade causes problems

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