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359degrees   08-07-2009 at 03:03:17 AM

My monitor was acting up, so I switched the bios from the card to the internal display. Then restarted. The internal display only gives me garbage. Now neither the card or internal work and I have no idea on how to switch it back to the way it was before.

Hellp,

Lee

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strangestranger   08-07-2009 at 11:11:34 AM

So, you are now using your intergrated gfx chip but it is not working.

Can you get into safe mode at all?

Have you got or can you borrow a spare monitor from somewhere?

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359degrees   08-07-2009 at 12:49:52 PM

strangestranger wrote :

So, you are now using your intergrated gfx chip but it is not working.

Can you get into safe mode at all?

Have you got or can you borrow a spare monitor from somewhere?



Yes, I have a spare monitor and neither work.

Both just give me a rainbow of scrambled color when connected to the internal.

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strangestranger   08-07-2009 at 12:51:06 PM

Both your intergrated and dedicated card don't display correctly?

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dextermat   08-07-2009 at 05:11:17 PM

I think your screen is fine, Probably a motherboard issue.

What's you computer, is it old ??

Do you have a working computer you could test the screen on ??

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aoster87   08-07-2009 at 05:11:20 PM

Try using integrated with your graphics card removed from the computer.

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359degrees   08-10-2009 at 04:46:26 AM

strangestranger wrote :

Both your intergrated and dedicated card don't display correctly?



Correct.

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359degrees   08-10-2009 at 04:51:10 AM

aoster87 wrote :

Try using integrated with your graphics card removed from the computer.



Tried and still does not work.

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359degrees   08-10-2009 at 04:53:35 AM

dextermat wrote :

I think your screen is fine, Probably a motherboard issue.

What's you computer, is it old ??

Do you have a working computer you could test the screen on ??



The computer is an old bare bones system.

The monitor basically worked before I switched the bios from card to internal.

I have tried F8 to get into safe mode with no avail.

I suspect that the problem is the resolution is set higher that what the internal will support.

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strangestranger   08-10-2009 at 11:48:09 AM

What about booting into vga mode?

That will automatically set it to a low res and might get you in enough to sort things.

Did the safe mode options appear at all?

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