Help on monitor!

How do I recover my monitor?

 

First thing to check are

1) Is the monitor cord attached to the computer firmly
( and may be ******* sometimes with monitor cables at both ends)
2) There may be more than one video card installed in your computer ( an internal one built in and one installed later) . Try the add on one first
3) There may be two video ports on your motherboard ( for two monitors at once) look for that and change the port to the other one.
Sometimes the one labelled B ( as opposed to A) is the first one to try . Go figure !
4) Follow your power cord . Make sure the socket works and power bar is on .
( Your computer may be plugged in elsewhere). Take the power cord out of the monitor and reinsert
5) If all that fails and you are somewhat technically adept try booting into safe mode ( diagnostic mode ) . Press either the F5 or F8 key on bootup
and try changing the video settings down. This is assuming that you saw a black and white screen on bootup. Perhaps the driver is corrupt . You would remove it and let it reintall by itself on startup.
6) If all that fails and you have some computer repair skills open the computer case, take out the video card reseat it. You may try as well removing any oxides on the video card copper terminal with an eraser of a pencil

Lastly and imporantly Do Not Open the Monitor Case to fix anything.
I am told that the capacitors inside can carry a nasty charge even if the montitor has not been used for a long time.

Welcome to the lucrative world of computer hardware and software repair !@

 

My friend said theres nothing wrong with it but he just wants to know how to recover his monitor like you recover your Computer with the Recovery Discs

 

The Monitor should work with XP's drivers, at least in a minimum configuration.

If the Monitor came with drivers that takes the place of XP's, then it would have a disc with those on it, otherwise XP's are sufficient.

Regards - Charles

 

Have you searched the Monitor manufacturer's web site for an appropriate Monitor driver?

Be first concerned about getting the right display adapter drivers installed for your machine.

Monitor drivers are, in the general sense of things, fairly trivial other than for specialized applications.

As "charlesver" mentioned above, you unlikely need one unless there is some special problem you are having. And if so, please describe it to the Forum in some detail.

 

newbiee, Since you are listed as a "Beginner" I'll give you some advice that will prove its worth in time to both you and your friend.

Get yourself a "Disk Imaging" software and use it to create a snapshot of your entire Primary Hard Drive. That image will contain all that you will ever need and you'll not have to worry about individual drivers, et al.

I recommend Acronis True Image for that purpose. From version 7 forward, it can make incremental images that normally take well under 10 minutes. It's best to keep the images on a second hard drive but if you have none, you can burn them to CD's.

Acronis True Image version 7 for free!

Disk imaging is the only way to go for a complete backup that can be accessed even when the drive won't boot. Just remember to keep them current as the changes occur to your drive.

HTH