retired_ruth00

Everything we ever seem to get is faulty so i should have expected this. Ive got everything plugged in and set up, but nothing will display on the monitor. When i use the monitor on my other pc it is fine.

There is power on the tower, and all i can guess is theres a problem with the monitor plug in thing on the tower. Is this very likely? Am just so f**ked off now

retired_laticia3

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

marynot

are you plugging it into the monitor plug on the motherboard? if so check to see if you have a graphics card and use that socket

retired_ruth00

Im not to much in the know about all this stuff, but i know it defiently has a graphics card. I forgot to mention its the blue cable, but im sure you already know that. As far as i can see, there is only one place i am able to put the the cable into.

marynot

http://www.techiwarehouse.com/i/Moth...therboard2.jpg

well theres an example of an onboard vga port

A graphics card is lower down and should look like

http://resources.vr-zone.com/Shamino...t_dual_dvi.jpg

that more or less

retired_ruth00

I have something similar to the graphics card in that imagne, but the blue monitor cable i have will not go into it.

retired_dawn12302

How about you take/post a photo of what you've got and let us have a look-see ?

retired_ruth00

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Here it is.

marynot

it doesnt work because your plugging the monitor into the blue socket. This is the onboard graphics which have been disabled because you have a graphics card. You need to plug it into the graphics card.


So you need one of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hama-Analogu.../dp/B00006J4LT

im sure theyre cheaper than that though

retired_dawn12302

Expecto mucho abuso.

Okay, looks like you either need to buy an adapter, or another monitor.