Graphics Card Issue

[James Collier]

Hi Matthew,
I've come across this exact same problem on both my old dev machines! It
only happens rarely and I havn't had a chance to work out why it's
happening yet.
Obviously it has NOTHING to do with Xorg (as you said) because:
	1. the monitor displays the "no signal" message
	2. You're running XP.
Diagnosis: Graphics card, as you correctly identified!

A work around I found, this may be a problem if you havn't a spare card,
is just swap the card with another machine.
A good dust can't hurt, but I doubt it'll fix the problem.
I suspect it's a BIOS settings issue (or a buggy BIOS).

Good luck,

James

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 19:06 +1000, Matthew Rossi wrote:
> Hi everyone.  For some reason nothing will come up on my screen when i
> use my old computer.  It was working before, the cables are connected
> properly, and it's a 7600 GS.  Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
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