No signal received by the monitor after the windows screen

[Mark Piotrowski]

hello everyone, this is my first post so i hope that i can explain myself well enough so you can help me.

i have a problem with my base unit i think the model is a acer aspire G505, specs below. AMD Athlon XP 2600+ / 2.13 GHz, Chipset Type NVIDIA nForce2 IGP , 512 MB RAM DDR SDRAM, AGP - integrated Graphics Processor / Vendor NVIDIA nForce2 IGP i am running windows xp home, if you need me to provide anymore details then i can try my best to get them for you.

essentially the problem is that i turn the computer on and the windows screen appears and the computer boots up (i think ) and after that the monitor loses signal and goes black, the strange thing for me is that the desktop has still loaded i believe because to shut the computer down again i can use the start key on the keyboard and use the keyboard shortcuts to shut the computer down. i have not dropped the computer at any point, i transported it from university and back home and thats when it has developed this issue, i have opened the box and all the cables seem to be secure on the motherboard but other than that my skills are limited im afraid.

i would be very gratful to any help that anyone can give me about this problem.

yours sincerly

Mark Piotrowski

 

[kangaruffian]

what about safe mode? if it does boot maybe you have wrong monitor refresrate setting? too high?

 

[Mark Piotrowski]

i cant get it to boot in safe made but hitting the f10 key is the way that i was told to try and do it. i havent changed any of the setting since it last was working and this is the first time that i have turned it on. is there any other way to get it to boot into safe mode?

 

[kangaruffian]

f8

it's f8 not f10

 

[Mark Piotrowski]

no joy

f8 doesnt have an effect either im afraid, i still get the no signal message and a black screen

 

[kangaruffian]

f8 or f5 keep tapping

:bounce: when booting

 

[Mark Piotrowski]

i have now been able to achieve save mode what do u advise to do from here?

 

[kangaruffian]

check videocard/monitor setting

or reinstall video drivers.. look first monitor refresh frequency setting try lower it 60hz /check "hide modes that this monitor cannot display" if its unchecked and then try again boot it up

 

[Mark Piotrowski]

success

i have completed it not thank god!!! thanks very much for the help i managed to get the comp into safe mode and then i uninstalled the graphic controller. i then rebooted and it came to the desktop normally. i then reinstalled the updated drivers from nvidia and restarted and everything works fine now