Solve : monitor gone mental?

1.	Solve : monitor gone mental?
Answer» For the last couple of weeks i've had serious booting problems. Everytime i started from a cold boot the censored thing would literally flash the POST, ide detection, WINDOWS xp LOADING page and then nothing. Only by hitting reset continually would it start. If i'm in windows and hit restart the pc would restart no problem. So.....i changed the psu, CMOS battery, video card, changed the RAM, set BIOS to default, uninstalled and regedit programs i no longer need, uninstalled everything i had added to the pc, ran virus checks and no change. It finally gave up the ghost a couple of days ago and so i had to switch to my kids comp.....lo and behold the same censored thing happened when i tried to boot up. The comp was working fine until i took over and switched monitors from the kids crt to my lcd. Problem solved it was the monitor but not what i was expecting. I have a Hansol H750 lcd that unluckily has just gone out of warranty. Anybody have an idea whats wrong or why its doing this? Perhaps your lcd monitor is not happy with your settings. Can you start in safe mode and check your resolution & REFRESH rates?Nope, when the monitor is connected booting goes crazy again and i dont want to wreck the pc by resetting about 50 times just to get it to boot up. OK.. Before you trash your computer by hitting reset over and over.. can you tell us what happens when you boot and hit the F8 key (sometimes F5 key)? Can you get to the menu?Quote ..... Everytime i started from a cold boot the censored thing would literally flash the POST, ide detection...... Please explain what you mean by "flash the post" and is that normal behaviour or a symptom? If it's a symptom then the fault is low level and booting to Safe Mode won't achieve anything. It does sound like it's a monitor hardware fault if it's affecting POST and in that case, there's probably nothing that you can do except consult a TV or computer repair shop. Maybe your power supply is on its way out? Could just be a coincidence that this happened after installing a new monitor... No assurance however... FlameI doubt it. The monitor is nothing more than an output device. It should in no way affect the boot process. Unless... for some reason the monitor is being powered off the same power source and is too much for the unit too handle... But again.. I doubt it. It still SOUNDS like the pc [flashing the POST, IDE detection, Windows loading] is getting past POST and losing it's sync when Windows starts.. just like it always does when it's out of sync. VGA mode will enable the user to get into safe mode. Selecting "Safe Mode" will not.The monitor draws current from the gfx card and to an extent, vice versa. Any overloading of these connections can cause problems.Quote Enable VGA Mode Starts Windows 2000 using the basic VGA driver. This mode is useful when you have installed a new driver for your video card that is causing Windows 2000 not to start properly. The basic video driver is always used when you start Windows 2000 in Safe Mode (either Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, or Safe Mode with Command Prompt). I GUESS XP does it differently, that's strange. :-? :-? :-? Quote VGA mode will enable the user to get into safe mode. Selecting "Safe Mode" will not. And that's even stranger. :-? :-? :-?The screens when i boot up are in this sequence and are literally on screen for about a second POST IDE detection Windows logo start screen and then the screen is totally blank up to over an hour( thats the longest i have left it to see if it would start on its own). The kids pc which i am currently on has an integrated graphics whereas the other pc has a seperate one. The kids one works fine with a crt until i switch to the lcd and the same with the other pc. The other pc had a new psu installed as an attempt to fix the problem and the one i'm currently on has a 500w psu, more than enough to cope with the monitor. If i hit F8 or any other key safe mode screen literally flashes up and then goes blank on both pc'sthe same if i try to enter BIOS. I'm at a loss as why it has suddenly started behaving like this.Ok.. one other thought... and this is a really stupid one... But who knows... Is it possible that the screen is just turned down on brightness and contrast so that when it's activated by windows it goes out? Just a wild hair thought.Lol its possible, i've pushed the buttons on it so many times i might have inadvertently done that....i'll give it a try when i get home from workok i've checked the settings and nope the brightness and contrast are a-ok this is really starting to wind me up now

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For the last couple of weeks i've had serious booting problems. Everytime i started from a cold boot the *censored* thing would literally flash the POST, ide detection, WINDOWS xp LOADING page and then nothing. Only by hitting reset continually would it start. If i'm in windows and hit restart the pc would restart no problem.
So.....i changed the psu, CMOS battery, video card, changed the RAM, set BIOS to default, uninstalled and regedit programs i no longer need, uninstalled everything i had added to the pc, ran virus checks and no change. It finally gave up the ghost a couple of days ago and so i had to switch to my kids comp.....lo and behold the same *censored* thing happened when i tried to boot up. The comp was working fine until i took over and switched monitors from the kids crt to my lcd. Problem solved it was the monitor but not what i was expecting.
I have a Hansol H750 lcd that unluckily has just gone out of warranty.
Anybody have an idea whats wrong or why its doing this?
Perhaps your lcd monitor is not happy with your settings.
Can you start in safe mode and check your resolution & REFRESH rates?Nope, when the monitor is connected booting goes crazy again and i dont want to wreck the pc by resetting about 50 times just to get it to boot up. OK.. Before you trash your computer by hitting reset over and over.. can you tell us what happens when you boot and hit the F8 key (sometimes F5 key)? Can you get to the menu?Quote

..... Everytime i started from a cold boot the *censored* thing would literally flash the POST, ide detection......

Please explain what you mean by "flash the post" and is that normal behaviour or a symptom? If it's a symptom then the fault is low level and booting to Safe Mode won't achieve anything.

It does sound like it's a monitor hardware fault if it's affecting POST and in that case, there's probably nothing that you can do except consult a TV or computer repair shop.
Maybe your power supply is on its way out? Could just be a coincidence that this happened after installing a new monitor... No assurance however...

FlameI doubt it. The monitor is nothing more than an output device. It should in no way affect the boot process. Unless... for some reason the monitor is being powered off the same power source and is too much for the unit too handle... But again.. I doubt it.

It still SOUNDS like the pc [flashing the POST, IDE detection, Windows loading] is getting past POST and losing it's sync when Windows starts.. just like it always does when it's out of sync. VGA mode will enable the user to get into safe mode. Selecting "Safe Mode" will not.The monitor draws current from the gfx card and to an extent, vice versa. Any overloading of these connections can cause problems.Quote

Enable VGA Mode

Starts Windows 2000 using the basic VGA driver. This mode is useful when you have installed a new driver for your video card that is causing Windows 2000 not to start properly. The basic video driver is always used when you start Windows 2000 in Safe Mode (either Safe Mode, Safe Mode with Networking, or Safe Mode with Command Prompt).

I GUESS XP does it differently, that's strange. :-? :-? :-?

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VGA mode will enable the user to get into safe mode. Selecting "Safe Mode" will not.

And that's even stranger. :-? :-? :-?The screens when i boot up are in this sequence and are literally on screen for about a second
POST
IDE detection
Windows logo start screen
and then the screen is totally blank up to over an hour( thats the longest i have left it to see if it would start on its own).
The kids pc which i am currently on has an integrated graphics whereas the other pc has a seperate one. The kids one works fine with a crt until i switch to the lcd and the same with the other pc.
The other pc had a new psu installed as an attempt to fix the problem and the one i'm currently on has a 500w psu, more than enough to cope with the monitor.

If i hit F8 or any other key safe mode screen literally flashes up and then goes blank on both pc'sthe same if i try to enter BIOS.

I'm at a loss as why it has suddenly started behaving like this.Ok.. one other thought... and this is a really stupid one... But who knows...

Is it possible that the screen is just turned down on brightness and contrast so that when it's activated by windows it goes out?

Just a wild hair thought.Lol its possible, i've pushed the buttons on it so many times i might have inadvertently done that....i'll give it a try when i get home from workok i've checked the settings and nope the brightness and contrast are a-ok

this is really starting to wind me up now

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