[TheList] A question for the (computer) geeks

Thu Apr 29 16:47:50 AEST 2010

Yup I'd agree, the DVI output has died on the graphics card.

As for the dead screen...I'm not an electronics guru, so my comment is probably worth nil, however, I think its in the bin for that screen.

Thanks,
Phil.

> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:50:38 +1200
> From: gary at flightpath.co.nz
> To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
> Subject: [TheList] A question for the (computer) geeks
> 
> I'd like a second opinion please to see if I'm thinking along the right 
> lines :-)
> 
> My mother's computer runs 3 LCD screens - 2 on a display card and one on 
> the motherboard video.
> 
> The report I got from her was that one of the monitors that runs on the 
> display card went blank a few days ago.  A few hours later after a 
> reboot it came on again.  Soon after that it went blank and stayed blank.
> 
> I went round and found that windows could see all three monitors and in 
> fact the dead one was working, just with no backlighting. So we plugged 
> a different monitor onto the existing cables and all was well until 
> about half an hour after I'd left then that one went down too.  This 
> time windows could only see two monitors, it was properly dead.
> 
> I've been round there again and have worked out that we can swap any of 
> our monitors between the video card VGA or the motherboard VGA and 
> they're fine, but when we try the same monitors on the the video card 
> DVI output they get no signal and aren't detected. Even the monitor with 
> no backlighting works fine (apart from the lighting) on the other outputs.
> 
> What I'm thinking is that the DVI output on the video card is fried and 
> it took the backlighting on the monitor out with it, and that this is 
> not necessarily caused by a power surge big enough to wake up a surge 
> protector, and that a new video card (and monitor) should solve things.
> 
> Sound right ?
> 
> The screen that lost the backlighting is nothing flash and not worth 
> spending much money on, is that likely to be as simple as replacing a 
> fuse or is it a bin job ?
> 
> Thanks
> Gary
> 
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