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Faulty connector VGA ?

geoff47
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Posted April 14, 2012 at 10:57PM

The connection to my monitor has been playing up for a while, if you knock the cable the monitor goes blank, moving the cable seemed to sort it out.

I have moved the PC, now I cannot get the monitor to display anything. I think it is the actual vga connection on the PC, rather than the cable because I have tried several cables.

Any easy solutions ?

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted April 14, 2012 at 11:14PM

Open the case and try reseating the graphics card.

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geoff47

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Posted April 14, 2012 at 11:25PM

I have opened the case, it is a built in graphics card. I can only assume the actual holes that accept the pins on the cable are worn or faulty.

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geoff47

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Posted April 14, 2012 at 11:50PM

I am humble and contrite. I have a confession to make. I moved the PC to cobble a memory card from another PC into it. From the limited research I did, I believed it to be OK, I have just extracted it and the monitor is working fine again.

Panic over, thanks for the input......I have learned something tonight. I am not as clever as I thought.

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northumbria61

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Posted April 15, 2012 at 8:03AM

geoff47 - I have learned something tonight. I am not as clever as I thought

We are all still learning something new every day - that's why we are on here Geoff. We can all benefit from reading a post from someone. Without problems there would be no Forum.

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted April 15, 2012 at 10:45AM

Thanks for lettings us now the outcome this may help others in future.

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geoff47

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Posted April 15, 2012 at 1:52PM

Yet another question.........how do you tick the thread as solved ? I have had a look, but it's not as obvious as it should be, I know I have done it before, but cannot for the life of me find how.

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lotvic

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Posted April 15, 2012 at 1:58PM

Click on a big grey tick next to any of the posts and it will turn green. Next time you refresh the page your thread will be marked resolved.

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geoff47

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Posted April 15, 2012 at 6:38PM

Thanks......I knew it would be something simple.

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