If I add a second video card will it work without me having to put in the soft ware for that video card? thanks
2006-09-27 02:07:14 · 4 answers · asked by mike r 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Monitors
attach ur monitor to some other machine, if it remains same,
repair monitor, no need to put another video card
2006-09-27 02:10:40 · answer #1 · answered by harsha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you know why your monitor is not turning on? Check the connections, they may be loose. Also check to see if any "on" button on the monitor did not somehow get turned off. Believe it or not these are the two most common reasons why monitors do not turn on when the computer does! People just freak out when it won't turn on, jumping to serious reasons immediantly instead of troubleshooting the simple ones first. Now, if your monitor still won't turn on you may have a driver failare, or a video card failare. Lets hope it is just a driver failare. Go to Device manager-click start-right click "My Computer"--Select "Properties" and a dialog box with several tabs will appear. Click on the "hardware" tab. On this screen you will find a clickable box called "Device Manager". Click on that button and the Device Manager Snapin will appear. On the left is a series of entries regarding all your computers hardware devices. Check and see if an exclamation figure is on the "Display Adapters", "Monitors" and "Sound, Video, and game controllers" sections. If there is then a device is having problems and it may be a driver issue. Click on the + sign to expand the area with the yellow exclamation mark icon. Right click and click "properties" or double left click to open properties. On the General Tab is a box in the middle of the dialog box. See if the top line reads "This device is working properly". If it is then there is nothing wrong with that particular piece of hardware. Continue these steps with each area that has to do with video on your computer. The one you should especially be concerned with is any with the exclamation mark. Click on the "Driver" Tab on the selection with the exclamation mark. There are four buttons on the Tab. Driver Details, Update Driver, Rollback Driver, and Uninstall. What you would want to do if it is a bad driver is go to your manufacturer's website for that particular piece of hardware and see about a new driver or an updated driver. Follow the instructions on downloading the driver and choose a place to download the file to. Then go back into Device Manager and bring up the troubled entry again, going to the Device Tab. Click on Update Driver. Follow the instructions for installing the driver. You will need to browse to the location you downloaded the new driver. Some drivers you need to uninstall and then install the new driver, others you can just intall and not worry about the old driver. Now, I strongly advice to set a check point in the System Restore prior to updating a driver, installing hardware, or software, of before doing anything with your computer. It is simple to do, just bring up System Restore and follow the instructions. This way if you encounter a problem you can boot up into safe mode and use the check point to restore your computer back to the state it was in prior to making the change. If it is a bad piece of hardware or a currupt software you can use "Safely Remove Hardware" in the system tray, go into Control Panel, then Add/Remove Applet and remove the offending software program, then rollback your system if needed.
Now, if the drivers are fine it may be your video card needs replacing. This can be an opportunity to upgrade to a higher quality video card, so it has its positives. Make sure you contact your computer hardware department to ensure you purchase a compatable card. You do not want to install the wrong type of card which your system can not support.
I hope this helps you find what is wrong with your monitor. I have had simular problems in the past and one of these solutions has fixed it. Once the cord had just become loose and resetting the cord fixed the problem, once the sound was somehow muted by a competing sound program and I just had to reconfigure the sound program I prefer to use. Then another time I had to update a driver, and several times I replaced the video card or just upgraded to a higher quality for better graphics display on my systems. Good luck and have a nice day!
2006-09-27 09:35:24 · answer #2 · answered by Serenity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is your video card that is not on a recognisable setting, try unplugging your video card and booting with a different video card, that should work and then put ur original video card back in and reinstall the drivers
2006-09-27 09:14:17 · answer #3 · answered by lolcuz212 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, you have to install the software for video cards......Just look at all the cables and see if they are connected right.
2006-09-27 09:09:44 · answer #4 · answered by danial w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋