iT TAKES ME AT LEAST 20 TIMES TO PRESS THE START BUTTON ON MY PC TO GET IT STARTED (AT LEAST ALLOW THE MONITOR TO GET A SIGNAL FROM THE CPU), A while back, my PC couldn't even start. I thought it was the power supply and I changed it so the CPU can start but the monitor does not receive any signal from the CPU unless I toggle with the reset and start button. Once on, the computer stays on a while if I don't do complex work or graphics. Sometimes, after staying on for a while, I may get an error message, a blue screen, some distortion or the monitor just completly blanks off, making me start that toggling to restart the computer again. Can anyone tell me what is happening and what can I do to fix this immediately?
2006-07-02 20:18:24 · 9 answers · asked by Dark Knight 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Monitors
It appears you may have a major problem with your computer power supply and motherboard, I suggest you take to a computer repair shop to have it examined.
2006-07-02 20:26:17 · answer #1 · answered by Rowdy answers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, you get a blue screen and an error message,,,and you ignored that? I would also need the error message to be able to diagnose what is happening , as any technician would.
The blue screen is windows way of telling you something very very bad happened and the error message is the same, it is telling you what the error is that might be causing the problem
In the industry we call the blue screen, "the blue screen of Death" and the fix for this can be one of a hundred things
I suggest that you take your computer to a qualified computer repair shop, before you do this copy all your personal files in the My Documents directory and any other folders you created, to a cdrom or different disk other than the one in the computer, the repair person might have to reformat your hard drive and reinstall the operating system, an besides there might be private stuff on there you dont want some repair type to see, so after you copy them over to a cd, check them to make sure they are working, then delete them from the computer before you take it to the shop
2006-07-02 20:30:51 · answer #2 · answered by Pete 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG you are killing your computer! a) by turning on and off your computer so many times you corrupted important files (this is possible) b) your video card is going out c) your firmware and drivers need to be updated for all devices that may affect the monitor, ie ports, vid card, monitor, cpu, hard drive....whatever you can update, .update it d) your monitor cable is bad or possible the monitor itself it going out. E) that blue screen you see may be the "blue screen of death" go ahead a google that. yeah, it's not pretty. Normally that means you have a serious problem, either a virus, you connect something wrong, your new powersupply settings are wrong and you are burning up your computer. It's hard to tell since I can't physically see the computer, but if you get the blue screen I'd suggest taking it to a technician to have a look. I think your computer may be in a world of hurt, it's not just your monitor. good luck.
future reference, if you turn your computer on and off many times with that reset button, it will mess up your computer. There are steps that computer takes to shut down the system and bring it back up. If you do it too many times too fast it has and increased chance of messing up those steps to properly work and may end up screwing up your computer...hmm doesn't this sound interesting ;)
2006-07-02 20:27:43 · answer #3 · answered by Kiko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try reinstalling windows. Might be a boot virus. Or some of your hardware might be F***ed up! Take your PC to some service company.
Hope I've helped you even a little bit.
Cheers!
2006-07-02 20:37:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
jesus christ man... just take it in. There are so many variables that it could be, it could be video card, bios settings (doubt it since it starts and the blue screen comes up) if it shuts down when you do intensive things i'd say it'd have to do with the video card heating up. get it worked on, and email me back. Im currious to know
2006-07-03 20:35:42 · answer #5 · answered by Jesus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a similar problem with one of my older machines. It is either a bad switch or a funky power supply. Try replacing the switch first (it's cheaper). If that produces no joy, try a new P/S.
2006-07-08 08:03:59 · answer #6 · answered by T-Bone DeRage 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
replace your whole cpu unit, maybe your motherboard is defective that why it is a hard starter
2006-07-04 02:51:57 · answer #7 · answered by lepactodeloupes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I sure hope you have more luck turning on the significant other!
2006-07-02 20:25:27 · answer #8 · answered by ladybugewa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
service ur system once,re install it and install new os and try
2006-07-03 00:49:05 · answer #9 · answered by vedha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋