No display on monitor after powering on pc although connections are correct

billyhead

Hi Folks,

I am hoping someone can help me. When I power up a brand new E-Celtic 500 manufactured (I know its not a well known brand of pc):D with the vgaconnection to the monitor and VGa cable I do not get any display on the monitor. It just displays a message on the screen that it cannot pick up the VGA connection/signal. Its not the monitor or the cable that is the problem because other pcs of the same make and model work with this monitor. I s there anything I can do that might enbale the display i.e BIOS changes etc or could the on board graphics card be knackered even though its brand new straight out of the box.

MunsterCycling

Connect to the onboard vga and see if you get a picture, if yes then boot to bios and swop the graphic prefs to the card from the onboard. Save, exit & then swop back to the card vga and boot.

MC

billyhead

Hi Munster Cyling.

Its actually the onboard card that it is already connected to. I presume I will need to source an external VGA card for one of the spare PCI slots

Rgds
Billyhead

Erper

Hi there...
If u dont have any signal on ur monitor u cant get into bios.
Check ur connection once again, and if still dont work than vga port on ur motheboard is dead.
Also get that monitor to ur friend and check it does it workin...

billyhead

Hi Erper,
Its not the monitor becasue it works with other pcs of the same make and build. This is happening at work by the way. I presume then that the onboard card is screwed. Its just as well its under warranty

MunsterCycling

Is the machine booting? Can you hear any error beeps? If not then just RMA its ass.

MC

billyhead

There is power going into the pc and I don't hear any beeping noise

Erper

just return it where u bought it and look for new one, not this one to be repaired

Farcear

billyhead wrote: »

There is power going into the pc and I don't hear any beeping noise

Do you know what model your motherboard is? It may not have a built in speaker to give you error beeps.

Probably best to just RMA the PC it if you can.

corkcomp

billyhead wrote: »

Hi Folks,

I am hoping someone can help me. When I power up a brand new E-Celtic 500 manufactured (I know its not a well known brand of pc):D with the vgaconnection to the monitor and VGa cable I do not get any display on the monitor. It just displays a message on the screen that it cannot pick up the VGA connection/signal. Its not the monitor or the cable that is the problem because other pcs of the same make and model work with this monitor. I s there anything I can do that might enbale the display i.e BIOS changes etc or could the on board graphics card be knackered even though its brand new straight out of the box.

does the pc have a DVI output or just vga and what about the monitor? Sometimes the monitor can get "stuck" on dvi output only, hard to explain!

lmimmfn

if theres a source button on the monitor press it, could be defaulting to DVI