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About 4 or 5 days ago, my monitor started blinking like mad at startup and taking its time to get to the login screen. Since then, it's gone from taking 2 mins to get to the login screen to 30 minutes. Today I didn't think it was going to get there at all.

 

Once it's on, it stays on fine but it looks like it's going to die on me pretty soon!

 

I don't know if it is the monitor that is the problem or the PC itself - vista 32 bit.

 

Can anyone help?

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Is the computer booting in the same amount of time, just taking ages for the monitor to actually show a picture?

 

If you can a LED or LCD TV, most have a monitor plug in there.... you could try taking the tower and the keyboard and mouse to your TV and seeing if it's any better on there. If so you know it's the monitor.

 

edit: in most cases the cable that goes into your monitor unscrews and will just plug into the TV. Some monitors don't have this as the cable is hard wired

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I'm not sure if it is taking longer to boot. Is there a way of telling that when the monitor doesn't show anything until the log in screen? I have an older TV - the CRT type. The PC doesn't plug into it.

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is it a CRT monitor aswell? I got a CRT monitor from Ebay for £4 if it is that at fault.

 

Try rebooting the computer once it is warmed up and seeing how long that takes.

 

Also, just checking here, there are no floppy disks in or CD's or DVD's? These can add to boot times if you computer is trying to detect if that is bootable media.

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Hard to diagnose.

 

what happens if you keep the computer on and reboot (turn off and on) the monitor ?. Is it ok ?. If yes, leave it off for an hour or so and try again.

 

If thats all fine and the monitor is fine once its actually started then I'd guess an actuall PC problem.

 

But having a spare monitor and swapping it around would help.

 

Does the PC behave normally when started ?

 

Something Ive noticed as IT Support in my office is that if PC's are getting hot normally this weather may send them over the edge, SpeedFan is a good free program to keep an eye on your temperatures.

 

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Another thaught, if you don't have another monitor... do you have a laptop? Most of these have a monitor out, so you could swap the monitor cable from the PC tower to the laptop and see if the monitor behaves properly that way.

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When the monitor fails to kick in it either PSU/ RAM or the graphics card.Try the monitor on another PC to eliminate that and if so its what I have suggested.

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It's a flatscreen monitor, just the tele that is CRT. I do have a DVD in the drive, I put it in a few days ago to grab a document off it. It was put in after the flashing started but come to think of it the flashing and time taken to get to the login screen has gotten worse since so maybe it is to blame for it taking longer to get to the login screen. I'll take it out and try shutting down and restarting later on tonight. Am keeping it on for now whilst it's still working! I'm having a look at online classified's to see if I can get a cheap second hand monitor to check it, or a cheap second hand PC if it is completely busted.

 

I don't have a laptop, no. I do have a broken netbook!

 

Hard to diagnose.

 

what happens if you keep the computer on and reboot (turn off and on) the monitor ?.

 

Do you mean the standby switch on the monitor, Andy? Sorry am completely dense when it comes to tech stuff.

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Yes, I have done. I've copied all my docs to it and am now backing up to a pen. I've managed to find someone who is willing to lend me a monitor tomorrow so that I can see if it is an issue with the monitor or the PC.

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It could be trying to boot from the DVD. Have you taken it out yet?

 

If I have a writable DVD in my drive it adds about 2 or 3 mins to boot time.

 

Also, pop some speakers or earphones in and listen for the tune it plays on bootup. If it doesn't normally play a tune, go to control panel and check the sounds in there, set it to windows default. Then it will play a sound when the computer is next booted, which should also give us a clue if it's the actual computers boot time or if it's just the monitor not comming on.

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If there is a CD/DVD in the drive it might be trying to boot from that first, this can be changed in the BIOS or simpler to remove the disc.

 

By rebooting, yes the monitor on/off switch or its better to unplug/pug from the mains.

 

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if you install teamviewer and send me the ID and password

 

i'll connect and check a few things for you erika...

 

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Erika not been on for a couple of days... any of you techie mods with contactact details?

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It died on me! Couldn't get it going again and didn't get the loan monitor until today. Plugged it in, and voila, am here!

 

Must be the monitor. This one seems to be working fine. Only got a shot of it though until next wednesday, in meantime am watching classifieds like a hawk for a cheap replacement monitor.

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Got an ad on freecycle now, thanks. I was in the charity shop earlier today - well the only charity shop that sells electrical goods. Their prices were ridiculous for second hand monitors!

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What county are you in? May be worth your while putting a post http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?312-Buy-and-sell-or-exchange

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check gumtree

 

loads of stuff for sale

 

also check your facebook if you have it theres alot of for sale sites on there

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