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I thought that it was the onboard video card so I put a new one in and still had the same problem. I figured that maybe it was the mother board and cpu, so I replaced them also but still no change. I have tried different monitors on this computer, but still no change. Thought it was the monitors them-self, so I tried them on my sons computer and they work just fine. I even tried the hard drive in my sons computer and it boots up just like it should.. Put it back in the tower and what I got was check signal cable or computer. Help I am lost as to what to do to this computer.Well, Let me restate this so that it is understood. (1) Tried different monitor that I know works. No change. (2) Tried new motherboard.No change. (3) Tried new cpu on new motherboard. No change.(4) Tried new video card.No change.(5) Put hard dive in another computer (which boots up and lets me log into it). No problems with the hard drive.
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So you changed the motherboard, and it still didn't work. Then you went to your son's computer, which has a different motherboard, and it worked? And for that matter, you had a spare motherboard and CPU just lying around?
If your hard drive recieved an update to it's graphics driver, and the driver had a problem of some kind, then that would explain why it would stop displaying anything. Did you get any updates before this happened?
No I didn't have any updates when this happened. I was on my computer playing a game that I have been playing on it over the last 4yrs. While playing the monitor just went blank and started giving me that check cable. The only thing that I can think of doing is reload the whole OS and start over. Which I would hate to do, seeings has how there are so-many software to re-download. The update does not make any since because I tried the hard drive in my son's computer and I was able to log on to it. I set-up two computers of the same everything, one myson's and the other one mine. It does not make any-sense to me how one is just fine and the other one (well, trash) messed-up.
Sorry if I seemed like I didn't read your question, I did, but it just seemed so odd. Thanks for restating what you had tried in a clearer way.
The fact that you changed stuff in the computer and it didn't work then put it in another computer and it worked is the main odd part.
Have you tried changing the data cable from the hard drive to the motherboard? I'm assuming when you switch to the other computer where it works you are using the data cable that's inthat computer, so the data cable in the computer where it doesn't work might be the problem.
That's for the help :) I took it into my computer tec and it was just faulty ram
Well, in a situation like this, what I would normally do is try using a different cable (from the monitor to the computer) to see if it's the cable, then do the same for the monitor, then insert the hard drive into another computer to see if it can be read, then do the same but boot to the drive, just to narrow down what it is. So if you haven't done something in that long run-on sentence, I'd say just try it and see what happens.
If I had to guess I would say it's either a driver problem, or your actual chipset/video card blew up. But since you said you tried it on another motherboard and it still didn't work I'm not sure.
