Monitor doesn't turn on, suddenly no signal from GPU?, everything looks fine

zz22

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Hello there, I'm new here. I found this website many times when googling pc problems and decided to post here my latest problem, which unfortunately I can't solve.

There is a long story behind my problem, but I make it short. During a thunderstorm my PC got damaged. The mobo and PSU had to be replaced. I bought my PSU one month back so decided to give it back on warranty. The man who repaired my computer changed the mobo. While waiting for a repaired PSU, I used an old one.

The whole time I was using my GeForce GPU. Few days later I got my PSU repaired, but it turned out, that it is now restarting from time to time so I gave it back to repair. One week passed and I got a new PSU. I connected everything, PC boots, but I look at the monitor... It doesn't turn on. There was no "no signal" on screen, the monitor remained in standby mode.

I tried to connect it to televisions I have, changing to an old GPU I have, swapping old PSU back, but without success, every time there was no image on the screen.

Then I gave my computer back to the man who repaired it. He said everything works and even showed me it. After I came back home, of course, it didn't work.

I decided to buy a new monitor with DVI support, old one had only VGA, but video card was DVI with a DVI-VGA adapter I used for many years. I got a new monitor yesterday. It worked for few hours and 2 computer starts. Today I turned on my PC and guess what... Again no image on the monitor.

I'm using now internal graphics. In BIOS graphics boot priority is set to PCI E/Internal. When my video card is plugged in, the internal graphics doesn't work, so I guess the GPU is recognized by the computer.

I have really no idea what can cause this problem. Any thoughts? I know I probably have to give it back to repair, but before that I want to ask you about it.

Many thanks for every answer. I already lost my minds too many times for this!
 

DireMe

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I had a similar issue, with me restarting my pc and not getting any picture. I solved it by pulling out my cables and plugging it in again. This seems to simple for you, and that you've done it for multiple times, but I thought I would say it anyways. Do you possibly have another PC you can try your card in? A friends or such?
 

zz22

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Thank you for your reply. I bought a new monitor with new sets of cables and it didn't work. But I remember that when I plugged off the old monitor from power and plugged it in after I turned the computer on, the screen was black, but the monitor was on, not stand by. There was a very weak, greenish image that appeared from time to time turning then into a whole black screen.
 

DireMe

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Try messing it all up. Pull out cables whilst the stuff is running. Turn PC on and monitor, pull out the power for the pc whilst it is running, as well as the monitor. Go in your PC pull out you GPU, start everything again and do the same thing, but now plug GPU back in and try. Tell me what motherboard you have if it doesnt work!