ConcreteWaves
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As of right now though, I'm 99.9% sure i'm having a hardware problem displaying my monitor. Here's my story and here's where I am: :freak:
I spontaenously decided to take apart my family CPU and do a complete internal air-in-a-can blowout of the hardware; motherboard, gfx card, fans, wires, harddrive, power supply, etc. etc.
1. thing wrong I know I did when taking it apart, is I didnt pay close enough attention to the Power SW, Reset SW, L.D.D. HED, and Speaker jumper setting. 1st question: Is there a set order for the jumpers to be in, or aslong as they are inserted into a jumper?
2. The flat series of wires that connect to your harddrive, floppy drive, CD/DVR Writers etc. I didnt pay attention to the 1 colored wire in the flat series of wires, which direction it was facing.
3. When using the air-in-a-can I SHOOK the can then sprayed the motherboard and graphics card. Then looked at the label saying Do Not Shake this can before or during use. I don't know I'm just trying to find my error in all this mess.
4. During the taking apart process I carried the graphics card around with me around the house put it down a couple times etc.
And then I put the computer back together and I know that I put the computer mainly back together right. I'm only curious as to the jumper positions with 10 sockets and 9 prongs. Because now the Power Switch isn't working. But I can care less about that til' later, I want my monitor display to work. My monitor says NO DISPLAY SIGNAL going around like a screen saver then when I go to insert the white cable from the monitor to the CPU it goes black and the monitor power light which is supposed to be solid is just flashing.
I heard that if there is no monitor display,
it can either be your monitor or your graphics card and if not either it can be your motherboard.
I know the monitor is fine. And the graphics card was working an hour before I took it apart and put it back together.
It might be the motherboard but I doubt it. The computer was working fine earlier today, I'm thinking it was just a minor error I made when taking it apart, dusting out, and putting back together.
ANY IDEAS?
Any help?
This computer is the family computer and has alot of information on it. I'm thinking in the back of my head I f**ked up the graphics card some how, and if that's the case - fine - i'll get a new one I got lifetime warranty. But motherboard O.O hope not. And Monitor, idk how that would gotten messed up - I left it in the same position.
So someone gimme some input and get back to me on this one.
-Thanks ConcreteWaves
P.S. I forgot to add, CPU DOES turn on and fans and lights are working on the internal. And I'm pretty sure I hear booting up sounds.
I spontaenously decided to take apart my family CPU and do a complete internal air-in-a-can blowout of the hardware; motherboard, gfx card, fans, wires, harddrive, power supply, etc. etc.
1. thing wrong I know I did when taking it apart, is I didnt pay close enough attention to the Power SW, Reset SW, L.D.D. HED, and Speaker jumper setting. 1st question: Is there a set order for the jumpers to be in, or aslong as they are inserted into a jumper?
2. The flat series of wires that connect to your harddrive, floppy drive, CD/DVR Writers etc. I didnt pay attention to the 1 colored wire in the flat series of wires, which direction it was facing.
3. When using the air-in-a-can I SHOOK the can then sprayed the motherboard and graphics card. Then looked at the label saying Do Not Shake this can before or during use. I don't know I'm just trying to find my error in all this mess.
4. During the taking apart process I carried the graphics card around with me around the house put it down a couple times etc.
And then I put the computer back together and I know that I put the computer mainly back together right. I'm only curious as to the jumper positions with 10 sockets and 9 prongs. Because now the Power Switch isn't working. But I can care less about that til' later, I want my monitor display to work. My monitor says NO DISPLAY SIGNAL going around like a screen saver then when I go to insert the white cable from the monitor to the CPU it goes black and the monitor power light which is supposed to be solid is just flashing.
I heard that if there is no monitor display,
it can either be your monitor or your graphics card and if not either it can be your motherboard.
I know the monitor is fine. And the graphics card was working an hour before I took it apart and put it back together.
It might be the motherboard but I doubt it. The computer was working fine earlier today, I'm thinking it was just a minor error I made when taking it apart, dusting out, and putting back together.
ANY IDEAS?
Any help?
This computer is the family computer and has alot of information on it. I'm thinking in the back of my head I f**ked up the graphics card some how, and if that's the case - fine - i'll get a new one I got lifetime warranty. But motherboard O.O hope not. And Monitor, idk how that would gotten messed up - I left it in the same position.
So someone gimme some input and get back to me on this one.
-Thanks ConcreteWaves
P.S. I forgot to add, CPU DOES turn on and fans and lights are working on the internal. And I'm pretty sure I hear booting up sounds.