No display on monitor

[circlessat]

I was messing around with the menu's of my computer, and I changed something, and now I have no display. When I reboot the computer, I get the Window's logo on startup, then again no display. I know I changed something in the menu to cause this problem. I have another computer setup to this monitor, where I switch between the computers. The monitor works just fine with computer 2. I just don't know what to do now. I would appreciate any help. Thanks!

 

[jsfitz54]

Could be analog / digital input selection from monitor or which video port your using(try doing 180 with cables).
What menu's were you working with?
Sometimes if you reboot 4-5 times it will rollback to correct drivers. Give it a little time between shut downs as the hard reset will cause OS to do a disk check for errors.
I've done this with wrong video drivers.


It would be helpful if you posted your specs: look in your TPU account / UserCP (top grey bar).

 

[DRDNA]

I was messing around with the menu's of my computer, and I changed something, and now I have no display. When I reboot the computer, I get the Window's logo on startup, then again no display. I know I changed something in the menu to cause this problem. I have another computer setup to this monitor, where I switch between the computers. The monitor works just fine with computer 2. I just don't know what to do now. I would appreciate any help. Thanks!

Worse case senerio...boot into safe mode and then do a system restore! Safe mode will probably give video out put.

 

[circlessat]

After I press F8 on startup, it goes to a screen that says Windows Advanced Options Menu with 3 safe mode options. Whichever one I select, it goes to a screen that starts out with Please select the operating system to start. It shows only one choice. Microsoft Windows XP Professional. After I press enter, it goes to a screen that is filled with 24 lines with the message that says : Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2) windows\systems32\1_intl.ns. All the lines start out the same, but have different endings, like system 32\drivers\ACPI.SYS. From this screen it's locked. No matter what button that I press, it goes nowhere. Can't get out of this screen, unless I reboot the computer, then it starts out with all the same steps. Thank you!

 

[jsfitz54]

I was messing around with the menu's of my computer, and I changed something, and now I have no display.

What were you messing with???

 

[circlessat]

What were you messing with???

@ jsfitz54. I don't really know. Now I know when you're not sure what you're doing, don't do it. Someone had mentioned that I may have been in the BIOS setup, when I messed things up. Thanks for your time and effort!

 

[jsfitz54]

If you were in the bios then go to last tab where there is a link that says something to the effect: 'restore default bios', hit F10, select yes to save, then reboot.

Were you at all trying to upgrade video drivers? Are you trying to run dual monitors at the same time? Again, go to UserCP at top and post your ("System Specs") hardware information because it may help to know what hardware you are working with.

It could be as simple as you selected single monitor vs dual monitor in graphics software selection.
If video card has two outputs then try each individually.

Try to remember what you were experimenting with or what goal you were trying to accomplish.

It could also be a hardware failure???