Urgent computer help please!!!
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Hi guys and gals
Got a problem with my dad's computer, which needs to be fixed before he gets home tomorrow
I had trouble with the moniter on my computer, so i used my dad's moniter to test it, and it is now ok. I have plugged my dad's moniter back into his computer, and when i turn the machine on, the orange light goes green on the moniter as usual, it does the load up screens, it shows the windows xp logo with the blue scrolling bar underneath it, then the moniter goes back to standby, and the green light goes back to orange.
I have tried a different moniter on the computer, and exactly the same is happening.
Anyone know what could be wrong with it?
Thanks in advance
Rich
Got a problem with my dad's computer, which needs to be fixed before he gets home tomorrow
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I had trouble with the moniter on my computer, so i used my dad's moniter to test it, and it is now ok. I have plugged my dad's moniter back into his computer, and when i turn the machine on, the orange light goes green on the moniter as usual, it does the load up screens, it shows the windows xp logo with the blue scrolling bar underneath it, then the moniter goes back to standby, and the green light goes back to orange.
I have tried a different moniter on the computer, and exactly the same is happening.
Anyone know what could be wrong with it?
Thanks in advance
Rich
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on bootup press F8
Should bring up a menu
Choose safe mode
When in windows, go into display settings (right click desktop, properties, display settings) then set the resolution to 800x600
Do a restart, let it load normally, then do above things again and try 1024x768 etc etc until it looks normal..
Try that.....
on bootup press F8
Should bring up a menu
Choose safe mode
When in windows, go into display settings (right click desktop, properties, display settings) then set the resolution to 800x600
Do a restart, let it load normally, then do above things again and try 1024x768 etc etc until it looks normal..
Try that.....
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well its currently in safe mode, when it first went to safe mode it asked if i would like to do a system restore instead, so i did, but when it restarted it went back to the xp screen with the blue scrolling bar, then went out, and the computer froze from there, but the screen didn't go to standby.
Am in safe mode now, the resolution is already set to 800x600, so am trying a defragment instead, but it is ruddy slow, is still at 1%, and has been for over 5 mins!!
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Am in safe mode now, the resolution is already set to 800x600, so am trying a defragment instead, but it is ruddy slow, is still at 1%, and has been for over 5 mins!!
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HMMMMMM
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Sounds like another issue to me, as the BIOS shouldnt have changed at all..
I was going to suggest a couple of things (if it happens again)
a) go into safe mode, the command prompt, and type 'rstrui'
this will restore your pc to an earlier time (say last week)..
b) go into boot menu (press F8) and choose 'last known good configuration'.
Unless some software has fucked with the BIOS, I cant see your problem being fixed...
Try the above for any other probs tho
wierd
Sounds like another issue to me, as the BIOS shouldnt have changed at all..
I was going to suggest a couple of things (if it happens again)
a) go into safe mode, the command prompt, and type 'rstrui'
this will restore your pc to an earlier time (say last week)..
b) go into boot menu (press F8) and choose 'last known good configuration'.
Unless some software has fucked with the BIOS, I cant see your problem being fixed...
Try the above for any other probs tho
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i'm with stu,
UNLESS when you plugged in the different monitor the bios is intelligent enough to turn down some settings to protect it self, but wasn't compatible with new monitor??
just a thought
UNLESS when you plugged in the different monitor the bios is intelligent enough to turn down some settings to protect it self, but wasn't compatible with new monitor??
just a thought
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