NO SIGNAL FROM CPU

I bought a Dell 8200 about 2 years ago. It has a Pentium 4, 80 gig hd, cd
burner, dvd, 256 meg rdram and and Nvidia GeForce w/ 64 meg ram
I should mention I'm using XP. PROBLEM....I boot up and the machine behaves
normally but, the monitor does not turn on. YES the monitor works, is
plugged in, all the pins look good but for some reason the cpu does not tell
the monitor to turn on, so the monitor says "monitor working properly - no
signal from cpu".
This happened 6 months ago so I started using another machine and I just
tried it for kicks last night and it
worked. Now it just does it once in a while. Is it my Nvidia GeForce
card??? Help...please.

Please e-mail

"Conman" wrote in message
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I bought a Dell 8200 about 2 years ago. It has a Pentium 4, 80 gig hd, cd
burner, dvd, 256 meg rdram and and Nvidia GeForce w/ 64 meg ram
I should mention I'm using XP. PROBLEM....I boot up and the machine
behaves
normally but, the monitor does not turn on. YES the monitor works, is
plugged in, all the pins look good but for some reason the cpu does not
tell
the monitor to turn on, so the monitor says "monitor working properly - no
signal from cpu".
This happened 6 months ago so I started using another machine and I just
tried it for kicks last night and it
worked. Now it just does it once in a while. Is it my Nvidia GeForce
card???

Try another card in there, sounds like the GF2's had it

Help...please.

Please e-mail


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"Conman" wrote in message
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I bought a Dell 8200 about 2 years ago. It has a Pentium 4, 80 gig hd, cd
burner, dvd, 256 meg rdram and and Nvidia GeForce w/ 64 meg ram
I should mention I'm using XP. PROBLEM....I boot up and the machine
behaves
normally but, the monitor does not turn on. YES the monitor works, is
plugged in, all the pins look good but for some reason the cpu does not
tell
the monitor to turn on, so the monitor says "monitor working properly - no
signal from cpu".
This happened 6 months ago so I started using another machine and I just
tried it for kicks last night and it
worked. Now it just does it once in a while. Is it my Nvidia GeForce
card??? Help...please.

Please e-mail


Reseat the video card a few times, also check the cable going to the
monitor.

Same thing happened to me. I found that I needed a new video connector from
my monitor. Two wires had broken. My computer would boot but no video
signal.
"Conman" wrote in message
ink.net...
I bought a Dell 8200 about 2 years ago. It has a Pentium 4, 80 gig hd, cd
burner, dvd, 256 meg rdram and and Nvidia GeForce w/ 64 meg ram
I should mention I'm using XP. PROBLEM....I boot up and the machine
behaves
normally but, the monitor does not turn on. YES the monitor works, is
plugged in, all the pins look good but for some reason the cpu does not
tell
the monitor to turn on, so the monitor says "monitor working properly - no
signal from cpu".
This happened 6 months ago so I started using another machine and I just
tried it for kicks last night and it
worked. Now it just does it once in a while. Is it my Nvidia GeForce
card??? Help...please.

Please e-mail