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Answer» I have searched the web a bit and only found topics from 2007.
I have a nvidia geforce 9800 gtx (and windows VISTA 64x)and I just installed a bunch of updates using the windows updater thing. Now I trust windows to give me updates that aren't going to mess things up, since I haven't had problems before, but this morning when I got up and turned my PC on I decided to go ahead an update/install all the updates I have ben ignoring windows/other hardware/software. There was a list of things. I let it do the ones it recommended and everything downloaded and installed fine...HOWEVER...
When it asked me to restart my computer like always I clicked yes, my computer restarted and booted back up, but I recieve no signal to the monitor anymore, however, I can hear that windows has started up because I hear the sound it makes when it boots up. I did notice there was a nvidia update in the list but didn't pay much attention to it because I didn't believe it would mess everything up.
I am using the DVI display port, and I have tried changing to the VGA port to no avail.
I am wondering how I am going to get this fixed when I can't see anything because my montor stays off. I am pretty sure this is a software problem but since I can't see the screen there is really NOTHING I can do I think?
Any suggestions would be appreciated as I am about to take it to best buy and they charge like 70$ just to look at it I believe and this best buy, which is the only one near and they have tried to rip me off in the past by selling me a new hard drive to fix a freezing problem with a different computer and then tried to charge me over 100$ to reinstall XP (again this was with a different PC I don't use anymore). I didn't have them reinstall XP cause I know how to reinstall XP and when I got it home to reinstall with the new HD they sold me it froze 2 minutes after booting it up to install windows (yah I was angry cause they had it for over a week)
So please, any suggestions would be wonderful.
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Ok so best buy is saying the monitor is broken so they kept the monitor and are going to send it out (2-4 weeks to fix...under factory warranty). I get home and plug in my old NEC MultiSync 95 (which still works great, I keep it around for just such problems) and everything boots up fine UNTIL I try to launch something that requires a bit of graphics power. I tried to launch WoW, went through the launcher and when it starts up red lines squiggle across the screen for a second and the monitor poofs to a black screen.
I unplugged the monitor and tower in frustration and after a couple minutes plugged them back in. The monitor got a signal but everything was all RED. I switched to the secondary DVI port and I have color and everything runs fine unless I try to run anything that requires graphical power.
I am thinking graphics card? I attached a dxdiag to this post now.
Could the graphics card have fried my other monitor somehow? All this is just very frustrating to me atm! Any more help/suggestions would be much appreciated.
PS When I brought the PC to best buy they plugged the monitor into another PC the monitor didn't work with the other PC. I am thinking my computer is messing up the monitors somehow? As long as I don't run anything that requires graphics this older monitor runs fine so far, anything with graphics and I lose signal to the monitor after squiggly red lines appear for a second.
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Quote I did notice there was a nvidia update in the list but didn't pay much attention to it because I didn't believe it would mess everything up
That's the lesson, everyone should learn. Never, EVER update ANYTHING through Windows updates, which doesn't concern Windows itself.
Unfortunately, Micro$oft often doesn't know what it's doing.
Now, did you try to start in Safe MODE?No, I didn't. I just got back from brining it to best buy. They hooked my PC up to a different monitor and it worked, then I brought my monitor in from the car to see if it worked and it didn't.
They say it's the monitor but the monitor is only a little over half a year old and it just seems awefuly coincidental that the monitor would fail hardware wise after installing an update when it was working fine before I restarted the PC and they say it's going to take 2-4 weeks.
I am actually going back over there to tell them to hook the monitor back up to a different PC to see if it works because that completely slipped my mind at the time.
If the monitor works with a different PC I'm going to be pretty upset with them because then it is def software related like I thought and they don't know what they are doing I think, heh (neither do I really but I am not completely stupid about computers, I can install hardware in the case and stuff).bump for people to read the updated post
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