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Old April 19th 05, 11:34 PM
KenP
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Hi, I hope you are having a great day.

My eMachine hard drive failed so I purchased new one and reloade system from
restore CD. Everything came up without problem; however, when I switched back
to the eMachine monitor, or any other monitor than the one on the system when
I restored the operating system, the system would not come up. With any
monitor other than the one connected when I reloaded the OS, the blue ME
screen comes up, flashes twice and then the black screen comes up and it just
sits there. If I reconnect with monitor installed when I reloaded the system,
it comes up just fine. The usual "found new device" window does not appear
when changing monitors.

Does anyone hae a clue as to how to resolve this problem? Thanks in advance.
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Old April 19th 05, 11:51 PM
Mart
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What happens if you try booting into Safe Mode (Ctrl or F8 keys at boot-up)
with any of the 'other' monitors connected?

If you can get into Safe Mode, open Device Manager and 'Remove' any/all
Video Display Adapters and Monitors, re-boot into Normal Mode and let WinMe
re-detect and install the appropriate drivers.

Mart


"KenP" wrote in message
...
Hi, I hope you are having a great day.

My eMachine hard drive failed so I purchased new one and reloade system
from
restore CD. Everything came up without problem; however, when I switched
back
to the eMachine monitor, or any other monitor than the one on the system
when
I restored the operating system, the system would not come up. With any
monitor other than the one connected when I reloaded the OS, the blue ME
screen comes up, flashes twice and then the black screen comes up and it
just
sits there. If I reconnect with monitor installed when I reloaded the
system,
it comes up just fine. The usual "found new device" window does not appear
when changing monitors.

Does anyone hae a clue as to how to resolve this problem? Thanks in
advance.



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Old April 20th 05, 12:36 AM
Mike M
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Follow Mart's suggestion and remove all entries in Monitor in the Device
Manager. If that doesn't fix it then boot back into Safe Mode and remove
all Video Display Adapter entries.
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Mike Maltby MS-MVP



KenP wrote:

I forgot to include that if I boot up in the SAFE MODE, the PC does
come up. Where do I change the monitor refresh mode, bios or ???


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Old April 20th 05, 01:27 AM
KenP
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That did it. Thanks a heap.

"Mike M" wrote:

Follow Mart's suggestion and remove all entries in Monitor in the Device
Manager. If that doesn't fix it then boot back into Safe Mode and remove
all Video Display Adapter entries.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



KenP wrote:

I forgot to include that if I boot up in the SAFE MODE, the PC does
come up. Where do I change the monitor refresh mode, bios or ???



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Old April 20th 05, 02:14 AM
Mike M
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Thanks for the feedback and I'm pleased to read you've fixed your problem.

Out of curiosity did you need to remove the video adapter or was just
removing the monitor entry in Device Manager enough?
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP




KenP wrote:

That did it. Thanks a heap.


 




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