Monitor is Blank at Startup!

[Raioke]

Hello, i'm in a bit of a pickle. My monitor won't show a picture at startup. Fans are running, the light on the monitor is running, and all cords are in place. Last thing I was doing was disableing VGA video or VGA settings (something like that) in the BIOS because games were very choppy after I installed my new hardware, (ram, and soundcard) I thought this could work or do something at least, but since im a noob at computers I got into worse trouble.

Now im here on this crap computer that cant even handle four Mozilla Tabs without lagging up.

Help Me!!!!!

 

[fastco]

Open up the computer case. Look for the cmos battery that looks like a nickle. Take it out and leave it out for a few minutes, put it back in and start the computer.

 

[N3051M]

Last thing I was doing was disableing VGA video or VGA settings (something like that) in the BIOS

Reset CMOS.

Unless you have a video card instead of the integrated one then that option should not be disabled. If you do have a card then plug in the monitor cable to the correct one.

 

[Raioke]

i promise not to change anything agian! taking out the battery worked

Kthx.

 

[N3051M]

Changing things are ok, as long as you know what you are doing..

maybe do a bit of background research beforehand, before changeing certain settings as some are vital to the operation of the system and others are general/optional stuff..

Its probably lucky this time that you only fiddled around with vga settings, which could be fixed with a quick reset..