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Black Screen of Death - Check Signal Cable...

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Hey guys, yesterday, my computer was off, and my room's electricity cranked out, and I had to go reset a breaker. The electricity turns up fine. However, when I tried to boot up my computer again, I got a "Check Signal Cable" error on my Samsung 204BW 20" LCD, and the screen is blank (after doing the analog-digital switching thing a few times) The computer surprisingly boots up fine, I tried logging in (blind), and pressed enter, I get the Windows sound from my speakers, and I get the logoff when I Alt-F4 (again, blind) shut down. I tried the monitor using VGA with an older computer (it only has integrated graphics, and the monitor is fine. I was using DVI on my new rig, and tried VGA on that, no show. Now, I know the monitor is fine.....the Dvi cable should be fine too....(this is a 3-week old rig)....I'm running a Gigabyte EP35-DS3L, 2GB OCZ Plat, Rev2 DDR2 800, WD 640GB, Antec P182, and eVGA 8800GT.....now I'm tempted to blame it on the Graphic Card...maybe not sending signal?

Thanks


Message edited by deusex on 09-23-2008 at 01:56:36 AM
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I have a 30 day return policy on most of the stuff (including GPU)....but remember, my computer seems like it can still boot....

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Try re-seating the graphics card and unplug the power to the monitor for about 10 minutes. Is everything running on a power bar with a surge protector?

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Running on a power strip with a surge protector....

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