Monitor fails to turn on?

[redfish]

Recently i've been having some difficulties with my computer at start-up. When I turn on my computer, my monitor won't respond. I wait a few minutes, still nothing. I have to hit the "restart" button a couple times in order to get anything. Yesterday I only had to do this once. Today the first time I hit restart it got me to the BIOS screen, then went blank. I had to hit it again. This has never happened before, although I have noticed something a little odd about the start-up sequence of my computer since I built it. I don't know what it is, but something doesn't seem quite right. Any help?

 

[MindoverMaster]

Looking at your sig, it's onboard, do you have another video card to test this?

Could be just your monitor going bad. Can you test this on a different system?

 

[redfish]

Not really. I know the onboard graphics have problems- the driver frequently stops working, and recently i've also been getting white screens that don't go away. If I had the money, i'd get a new video card- but unfortunately I don't.

 

[MindoverMaster]

Are you sure the monitor works?

I would guess it IS your onboard video. You can just get a cheap one somplace, and use it until you can afford a more beefy one.

 

[redfish]

I suppose that's right. I was hoping there's some software update or something I could do, but I guess not. Thanks for the advice.