My monitor is blank when booting my PC

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START THE PC IN SAFE MODE AND REMOVE THE DISPLAY ADAPTOR FROM DEVICE MANAGER

reboot and let the pc reload the video driver


"Darren" <darrentaggart_1@hotmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
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> Hi, firstly please excuse me as I am not as computer literate as most
> of you guys out there so any help you can give me is much appreciated
> but it would be useful if you could make any responses as simple as
> possible for me. Thanks in advance!
>
> I have just tried to connect my monitor to my old PC (when I say old
> its not real old, it has a 1.3ghz AMD athelon processor). Once the
> computer gets to the stage where it should display the desktop the
> monitor remains blank and appears to go into standby mode. The
> strange thing is that the monitor is working fine (I'm using it on my
> new PC now) and it works on my old PC if I run the computer in 'Safe
> Mode' and also works when the resolution is set to the lowest
> possible at 16 colours. However when I attempt to increase the
> resolution the computer tells me it must restart which it does and
> then when it reboots the usual messages you get when booting the PC
> appear but as soon as it gets to the point where it should display
> the desktop the monitor goes into standby mode and remains blank.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
>