monitor OSD reads "out of range"

hello, I have been having trouble with my monitor the last couple weeks,,the screen been changing from clear to fuzzy,,,on and off for no specific amout of time,,,finally today the screensaver was on and when click off my screen was completely blank(white fuzz)...Then I tried to restart computer, when my monitor fired up a on-screen-display popped up and gave me this error:::

OUT OF RANGE
Hf:30khz - 70khz
Vf:50hz - 160hz

Current Frequency
Hf - 23.5khz Vf - 53Hz


My monitor at the moment is completely useless, can use any help I can get, running windows98 in a 550 eMachine, thanxs

 

monitor

Could be the video card too? Is the vid card built into mobo? check that monitor cable also. Out of range could mean just not recieving a signal via the probs above

 

When I have seen out of range it sometimes refers to the refresh rate of the video card being too high - the monitor telling you it is "out of range" of what it can display.

Can you see the bios flash screen when the computer starts to boot or does it say out of range from the minute the computer starts?

Cheers,

ICE

 

sorry about the delay but i have to use a public computer to get online now, the video card is not built into the motherboard, and the
out of Range starts up soon as the computer is turned on,,,my video card is a nVidia TNT2 - 3D 8MB,,,,,,,,,,thanks again

 

monitor

To determine what is wrong, take the monitor to another puter & hook it up. Or bring another puter, notebook even works to the monitor & hook it up. If samo "outa range" it's the monitor if works then video card or somewhere in between (wires)

 

went bought a new video card and seems to work fine now,,,,,,except,,,i bought one with TV-out and cant get nothing but my desktop background to display itself on the TV, no icons on it, and wont play and videos on it.......the card is a Pandex GF2 mx400 64mb agp w\tv out

 

safemode

Hey dude, yer on the rite trac. boot into safemode & uninstall video card software. reboot, when asked about vga click yes, get up to desktop in plain vga. now load your new video card drivers etc. reboot set to 800X600 w/24bit & check out the refresh rate @ 75mhz