I have had this problem since i finished my build a month or 2 ago. the problem is that the monitor never comes on when i turn on the pc. Recently i tracked the problem to being the graphics card not turning on. I checked the power to the g card and that is fine. The comp will run fine and the monitor will turn on when i boot the computer up for the second time. However, it is rather time consuming have to do 2 boot ups and a shutdown. It seems the monitor automatically goes into standby mode when i turn on the plug. the g card turns on when the monitor is pluged in to the vga port, and is not on standby. Anyone else have this problem? Any recommendations? Could it be a bios problem. The monitor is an lg flatron lg1915s. Pc spec is: amd dual 4400 1024mb corsair ram 600w sli artic jeantech psu g card is a 6800gt bfg mobo is a k8n msi sli platinum 250gb seagate hdd barracuda
Is this a CRT or TFT? + thats some NICE specs :love: *edit* sorry dumb question (luckly i thought to google it after i posted), err..... have you got another screen lying around that you could try? (to determine if it is / is not the TFT) *edit*
Yea i tried it on a CRT and same problem. But that was when i had to set up the bios for the first time.
If you suspect a bios problem, you should load / restore defualt settings. Also, it might be worth trying another graphics card (as this will determine if its the g card / not the g card [as the monitor has now been ruled out])
