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Windows error with new monitor
Hi All,
I have a friend's Gateway PC dumped on me. It had died, and he asked me to fix it. It turns out, the machine hasn't died, but the monitor had. I plugged in a new monitor and halfway thru booting, I get an error message "Protection error. You need to restart your machine". Occassionally it would boot to Windows 98, but then I would get three or four BSODs on the trot, then it would just crash. I fixed the old monitor, and plugged it in - no problem. Started up, shut down, started up again. I tried the new monitor again and got exactly the same problems as before. I have never come across a monitor having such a detrimental effect on Windows - has anyone else come across this problem, and if so, any suggestions? Thanks very much. Mav |
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I fixed the old monitor, and plugged it in - no problem. Started up, shut
down, started up again. How did you fix the old monitor? I have never come across a monitor having such a detrimental effect on Windows - has anyone else come across this problem, and if so, any suggestions? I've never heard of this before. But I do have a suggestion, try booting with the old monitor then uninstalling any monitor drivers. Plug in and boot with the new one and see what happens. Maybe use safe mode. |
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Cable connection on the back was dodgy. I say fixed - more "bodged" to get
it to work long enough to test it. Yes, I had tried removing all the monitor drivers in safe mode, then rebooting, but that was with the new monitor. I'll try it with the old one booting normally. Thanks. "jkb" nospam wrote in message ... I fixed the old monitor, and plugged it in - no problem. Started up, shut down, started up again. How did you fix the old monitor? I have never come across a monitor having such a detrimental effect on Windows - has anyone else come across this problem, and if so, any suggestions? I've never heard of this before. But I do have a suggestion, try booting with the old monitor then uninstalling any monitor drivers. Plug in and boot with the new one and see what happens. Maybe use safe mode. |
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It definitely sounds like a hardware problem but it's possible that it's not
the monitor but the video card or even something else. Perhaps the video card is not seated firmly. When hardware is failing, you often get random problems at boot time. If the problem is with the software, then you will generally have the same problem with each boot because if you don't make any changes, the same files load in the same order each time and should produce the same behavior. Monitors generally do just fine with generic Windows drivers. You may have actually had two problems at first if the cable connection was bad on the old monitor. Does it make a difference if the computer is warm or cold? There may be a crack in a circuit board that makes connection when it warms up. Will it boot consistently into Safe mode? PattyL "Mav" wrote in message ... Hi All, I have a friend's Gateway PC dumped on me. It had died, and he asked me to fix it. It turns out, the machine hasn't died, but the monitor had. I plugged in a new monitor and halfway thru booting, I get an error message "Protection error. You need to restart your machine". Occassionally it would boot to Windows 98, but then I would get three or four BSODs on the trot, then it would just crash. I fixed the old monitor, and plugged it in - no problem. Started up, shut down, started up again. I tried the new monitor again and got exactly the same problems as before. I have never come across a monitor having such a detrimental effect on Windows - has anyone else come across this problem, and if so, any suggestions? Thanks very much. Mav |
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