Monitor Does NOt DISPLAY ANYTHING

[thatsmohitag]

hi,

I have 15" Samsung Monitor.When I boot on the PC it does not display anything.I think the Problem is in MotherBoard as Same
Monitor works with another PC.

I have a P4 PC.

Thanks
Mohit

[foxyshadis]

Consider getting a video card and disabling the onboard video?

If nothing else, you can borrow a PCI card off someone to at least find out if the board still otherwise works. If not, junk it and load up newegg.

[CWR03]

Does the PC make its startup sounds as it loads Windows, or does it not appear to load anything at all?

[Hard Core Rikki]

is the energy on ? PSU would be to rule out.

could be the gpu, i noticed some geforces and ATI cards would block the systems booting if they were wasted, not displaying anything at all. Try a different AGP GPU and see if it fixes it.

I was once misleaded by lowly skilled technicians and replaced motherboard whereas GPU was the faulty part. Damn, I'm not trusting any "tech support" except myself anymore.

[UofC]

Listen for beep or look for a post code on the moatherboard.

If nothing happens then try the route of another GFX card. Do you have on-board or PCI, AGP, PCI-E card?

[mod]

Check the voltage of the video card in the BIOS.
I have a machine with a 15' Samtron and an Asus 9600XT (aka Samsung made in Europe) and if the voltage is wrong sometimes the video flickers or simply isn't displayed at all.
I also noted that it happens only with WinXP, with Linux it has never happened (that machine runs linux of course ^^).

[Hard Core Rikki]

if you have S3 in suspend mode in bios, revert it to S1

Try a different monitor if you can.

@ mod: remember, he cant see anything displayed with his current monitor, so its unlikely he'd be able to check voltage in bios, unless he tries a different monitor

[mod]

unless he tries a different monitor
Of course, you're right. Maybe I was wrong but I assumed that after a few tries he had to use another one anyway, just to check if the vcard works.. :)