I had just built a new computer for myself. I got it working and everything was OK. I went into the display settings and changed the resolution. My screen went dark. Almost as if the backlight just shut off (do CRTs have backlights?). I can still see the screen but everything is really dark. The screen was working until I changed the setting. I tried to adjust the controls for brightness/contrast on the monitor but they were all locked. The options won't let me unlock it (although there is a lock/unlock feature). When I try it on another computer the screen remains dark. Is there any way to fix this.
Monitor: Sony Trinitron Multiscan 200GS (Model CPD-200GS
Processor: Intel Pentium D 3.0GHz (Dual-Core)
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 5200 PCI (Not PCI-Express)
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista RC1
Please dont comment and tell me how bad my video card is.
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>> When I try it on another computer the screen remains dark
The "it" refer to the monitor or the CPU ?? if the "it" refer to the monitor, which mean you move the monitor to another CPU to test for it, but the results is the screen remains dark, that could be your monitor break down already.
In another side, if the "it" refer to the CPU, which mean you switch your CPU to a new monitor to test for it, but the results remain the same (screen still dark) which mean is your graphic card problem, you might need to check whether you pluged in the video card probably or not ...... make sure the video card can be detected by the computer .......
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by: sparkmakerPosted on 2007-04-14 at 02:22:51ID: 18910265
Can you get into safe mode. If the same problem exists in safe mode, I would be looking at the video card being bad(sorry) or the CRT itself is bad.