You are a FULL Bob & didn't see he did that & got "---No input signal----"!


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Bob B" wrote in message ...
| Why not try the new monitor on the old computer!
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| "Wayne" wrote in message
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| Wayne
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| I would like some suggestions, please, to try on the following problem.
| Computer is a HP, model 6353, about 8 years old. Has windows 98 OS.
| Computer
| and monitor was working fine but owner bought a new computer with XP. The
| old
| monitor was hooked up to the new XP computer, it worked fine, and the the
| old
| computer was set aside for approx. two weeks. The owner of the computer
| bought a new monitor for the XP computer and she decided to set her old
| computer again with the original monitor. After setting up the old
| computer
| again with the original monitor, which had previously worked fine with,
| the
| monitor will not come on and stays blank. When turning on the computer the
| green light on the monitor will come on for a short time, as if it going
| to
| turn on but then will go back to amber and stays blank even thought the
| computer is on and running. The monitor works fine on the XP computer so
| the
| monitor is good. The offending computer has on board video. When the old
| computer was connected to the new monitor which is on the XP computer, the
| words "---No imput signal----" showed on the screen. To me this would
| indicate that the onboard video is not working. Since the computer is old
| the
| owner does not want to put much money in it. Even though I think the
| onboard
| video is not putting out any signal and is possibly bad, I cannot be 100
| percent sure that this would cure the problem. Does anyone have any ideas
| of
| any others things that I may try without costing any money. I advised the
| owner of the computer she may have to buy a used AGP video card and see if
| that takes care of the problem. Since the monitor stays blank I cannot
| even
| disable or uninstall the old drivers if she does decide to buy an AGP
| video
| card. I know that this is the recommended procedure before installing
| another
| video card. Since I cannot see anything on the monitor I cannot enter the
| bios or go into safe mode. I tried holding down the control button and
| also
| by tapping the f8 button but I could not get into safe mode. I also tried
| getting into the bios by hitting f10 button, old compaq computer, but
| again,
| to no avail. Could the computer with the XP OS have done something to the
| old
| monitor to where it would work on XP but not on the original computer. I
| do
| not see how anything could have happened to the old computer that would
| cause
| this problem since it not being used since the owner had purchased the XP
| computer Thanks for any suggestions
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