mike Posted May 29, 2004 Posted May 29, 2004 When a little box dances around an empty montior screen saying sync out of range Is this a bad monitor or video port? thanks in advance for any suggestions Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted May 29, 2004 Posted May 29, 2004 Have a look here if its something similar to your problem, http://forums.devhardware.com/showthread.php?t=16045 Quote
DarqFlare Posted May 29, 2004 Posted May 29, 2004 Ahh. Hate that. Without reading that article, in my experience, that means that the computer is trying to send a video feed that the monitor cannot handle. Likely culprit: your resolution is too high for the monitor to display. Quote
TCH-Rob Posted May 30, 2004 Posted May 30, 2004 Or perhaps the refresh rate... Thats what I was thinking. What were you doing when this started happening? Quote
mike Posted May 30, 2004 Author Posted May 30, 2004 This 'puter is owned by an older guy and I am not sure what he's been doing . Have to go take a look. I see most of these problems are from video cards for games and I doubt that he is doing any games so I thought I would ask all the "family" gurus and see what you guys and gals thought. Maybe it's his onboard video gone bad? Different monitor didn't solve his problem and I don't know why he's change his res, but will check. thanks. Rock Sign Rock Sign Quote
TCH-Dick Posted May 30, 2004 Posted May 30, 2004 Does the POST screen show when the computer is booting up? If it does get into the bios and set everything to default. If it doesnt show up you can clear the CMOS by either turning the computer off, unplugging it and removing the cmos battery for a few minutes, or find out what motherboard it has, look up the manual for it and see if it has a CMOS jumper. Then you would turn off the pc, unplug it, switch the jumper for a few seconds, switch it back then power it back up. Normally thats a dead video card problem, but clearing the cmos might fix it. If it doesnt and you have a spare video card try using it and see what happens. Quote
mike Posted May 31, 2004 Author Posted May 31, 2004 Thanks a heap. I will try the cmos thing and a video card. Rock Sign Rock Sign Quote
mike Posted June 1, 2004 Author Posted June 1, 2004 THANKS EVERYONE! It was the video card. Rock Sign Quote
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