Now what?!

[TheMajor]

Its only a part of your computer, you can get a new one in your local computer store or on sites like www.newegg.com

 

[Noknowledge]

I get a screen that says excatly the following

*SELF TEST PATTERN*
R

G

B Moniter is Working

thats all I get no buttons work or anything at all...

 

[ph@ntom]

hm... it may be something else... are all of your fans working? all the devices?
Does windows load (u can tell by sound)

 

[Rizinc4]

You say that there is no picture, but there is a test? How can that be? Lol... Anyway, it sounds like your friend installed drivers, because that would run a test when windows booted for the first time with those new drivers. You should find out if he installed the newest drivers, and anything else he may have done.

 

[Amd64Boy]

i had this problem just a few days ago with a freind make sure that your RAM is all the way in the dimm/socket

 

[silence782]

Could it be the monitor's refresh rate, or resolution is different on the home monitor than it is on the friend's monitor? Do you get a POST screen at all?

 

[jaksback]

i believe its your power supply, same thing happened to me, your vid card aint getting the power requirements needed

 

[Leonidas]

it is not some test with the drivers guys, it is what most monitors(new ones especially) do when there is no signal... it means the graphix card isnt sending a signal to the monitor at all, could be a broken graphix card, bad cable/monitor, or your mobo not sending data to your graphix card for some reason.. i ahd the same trouble but it was caused by a bad graphics card... try your old graphics card again, or call the computer guy to your house to try it.

 

[derfist]

my friend had this exact prob. he managed to solve it by changing some monitor settings. he brought his com over to his friends house and managed to change a display setting to solve d prob. if i'm not wrong, it was a power management prob. the monitor was receiving either too much or too lil power.