I turned on the main PC yesterday, one monitor had the "check signal cable" box floating around, the other had "installing registry updates 1 0f 96" on it.

 

I thought ok thats weird and let it run, came back 10 mins later and the screen that was running had nothing but the cursor on it.

 

I switched out the GPU to a spare I had, that wasn't the problem, I have reset the Bios, run a disk chk, tried booting from the Win 7 install disk which runs, but I still end up with 1 screen (the main screen) with the check signal and the other just the cursor .

 

I can't start it in safe mode as the arrow keys aren't doing anything its stuck on start windows normally.

 

Specs-

 

i7-950

Win 7 pro

X58A-UD3R MB

6 gig ddr3

4890 gpu

750 watt psu.

 

Everything is plugged in/seated correctly, the PC was fine the day before when I shut it down but now I'm stuck.

 

Ideas ?

OM G

 

Damn kids had been playing with the settings on the monitors and changed the settings...

Facepalm followed by arse kicking

Problem solved

lol

 

(grrrrrrrrr but lol anyways )

lol what were you doing before you turned it off last time

 

try a ubuntu boot disk just to see if its a windows only problem.

 

 

lol yes right clicking on the desktop is way to easy :hi:for the young ones, and they love all the buttons on the screen

Edited March 12, 201115 yr by Pudgeinabowl

I never even considered checking the monitors, dammed if I know exactly how they did it, but after restoring them back to the default settings its all good.

 

Damn kids..

Haha glad it wasn't a serious problem. I wonder how they did that?

Haha, kids. I thought your room was kid proof?

My Kids touch my PC they are in big trouble they have there own for a reason. Come to think of it not even the misses touches my PC

I never even considered checking the monitors, dammed if I know exactly how they did it, but after restoring them back to the default settings its all good.

 

Damn kids..

 

Yep, This is why when I have kids, if they ever come into the study I will force them to wear oven mitts. =P

Man, I jumped into this thread hoping to have a whinge about school and tell stories about the weekend...