Hi,
As the subject suggests, this is quite serious. I'm not sure it's Vista's fault though, but it may have accidently caused it.
Basically my PSU has been goofing up since an electrical storm. Whenever I turn the computer off, the LEDs in the fan, etc blink really fast and the fan on the PSU turns off and on quickly. I know I have to get a new one, but just haven't gotten around to it.
As for the monitor, well, whilst installing Vista it changed the resolution. After this, regardless of if I was in Vista, or in the BIOS / bootup screens, it was bent inwards on both sides, as though someone had set the monitor's adjustment settings to the extreme to bend the middle in. The buttons on the monitor wouldn't work anymore.
After about 10 minutes of changing resolutions and refresh rates (all within the bounds of the monitor's limits [1024x768, 60/70/75Hz]) it went blank and turned off for about half a second, then an enormous bang :x: sounded from the monitor's rear. That was it. Nothing more.
Fearing some electrical problem I immediately turned off all power.
About three weeks before my previous monitor also stopped working. It's a different model but it just went blank as though there was no power attached, but there was.
My graphics card is a Leadtek Geforce 6600GT 128MB. It requires a PSU power source, which makes me wonder if the problem with the PSU somehow causes the problem with the monitor via the graphics card.
I supose I'm thinking it caused the wrong signal to be sent to the monitor so it went out of range for the Hz, or the power just went straight through the graphics card into the monitor and nailed them that way. Both the monitors were plugged into the same power board but it's a surge protected, high quality one and it seems fine. No other devices plugged into it are failing at all (that I know of).
I'm not sure what the cause may be, but for sure I am replacing the PSU and of coarse the monitor to a nice 19" TFT.
I don't think it's the graphics card as when the monitors were working, I've been playing things like FarCry at maximum settings and it's been brilliant with no crashes or graphical goof ups.
I guess it should also be said that my on-board USB ports in Windows appear to be turning off then on then off again every few seconds. Windows says it's found new hardware each time it happens which it installs drivers for, but then the 'found new hardware' for the USB ports comes up. In device manager it says there's a problem with the USB controller. If I turn them off in the BIOS then the problem goes away, though I do have to attach my USB PCI card to get USB access. I wonder if the PSU, if it's failing and having all sorts of power supply (litterally) issues that this may be causing the USB problem.
Any suggestions on the cause would be appreciated.
As the subject suggests, this is quite serious. I'm not sure it's Vista's fault though, but it may have accidently caused it.
Basically my PSU has been goofing up since an electrical storm. Whenever I turn the computer off, the LEDs in the fan, etc blink really fast and the fan on the PSU turns off and on quickly. I know I have to get a new one, but just haven't gotten around to it.
As for the monitor, well, whilst installing Vista it changed the resolution. After this, regardless of if I was in Vista, or in the BIOS / bootup screens, it was bent inwards on both sides, as though someone had set the monitor's adjustment settings to the extreme to bend the middle in. The buttons on the monitor wouldn't work anymore.
After about 10 minutes of changing resolutions and refresh rates (all within the bounds of the monitor's limits [1024x768, 60/70/75Hz]) it went blank and turned off for about half a second, then an enormous bang :x: sounded from the monitor's rear. That was it. Nothing more.
Fearing some electrical problem I immediately turned off all power.
About three weeks before my previous monitor also stopped working. It's a different model but it just went blank as though there was no power attached, but there was.
My graphics card is a Leadtek Geforce 6600GT 128MB. It requires a PSU power source, which makes me wonder if the problem with the PSU somehow causes the problem with the monitor via the graphics card.
I supose I'm thinking it caused the wrong signal to be sent to the monitor so it went out of range for the Hz, or the power just went straight through the graphics card into the monitor and nailed them that way. Both the monitors were plugged into the same power board but it's a surge protected, high quality one and it seems fine. No other devices plugged into it are failing at all (that I know of).
I'm not sure what the cause may be, but for sure I am replacing the PSU and of coarse the monitor to a nice 19" TFT.
I don't think it's the graphics card as when the monitors were working, I've been playing things like FarCry at maximum settings and it's been brilliant with no crashes or graphical goof ups.
I guess it should also be said that my on-board USB ports in Windows appear to be turning off then on then off again every few seconds. Windows says it's found new hardware each time it happens which it installs drivers for, but then the 'found new hardware' for the USB ports comes up. In device manager it says there's a problem with the USB controller. If I turn them off in the BIOS then the problem goes away, though I do have to attach my USB PCI card to get USB access. I wonder if the PSU, if it's failing and having all sorts of power supply (litterally) issues that this may be causing the USB problem.
Any suggestions on the cause would be appreciated.