computer troubleshooting

[phatdaddy]

anybody ever had a video card go out?
I'll be on the computer and the moniter will just go out. re-booting, power up, banging on cabinet, etc will not help. i have to leave it alone and it will come back eventually. and i don't know for how long.

i am open to suggestions, if that is it are they hard to change?

thanks

[RWilson2526]

I've had more monitors than video cards go. are you able to plug in another monitor and see if the same thing happens. or take that monitor to another computer? I'm sure you thought of that but you never know.

I know changing the video card used to be easy. Its been sometime but it was just a matter of popping the old one out and putting new one in. Just like the old fashioned modems. (man I'm feeling old all of a sudden)

[THEFERMANATOR]

Sounds like a monitor issue more so than a video card. When my card went my computer would freeze up and wiggling the monitor cable where it hooks to the tower would unfreeze it. Powering off sounds more like the monitor.

[macojoe]

as said ck the monitor on another computer. Vid cards are easy to replace, but you must go in the bios on some to disable the original card as they were built on to the mother board.

[phatdaddy]

The reason i am leaning toward the tower & not the monitor is when i power it up it reads "No Signal" and the test pattern will come on. it acts as if its ok, just no signal from the computer. i'll try switching monitors

thanks

[Skools Out]

still sounds like the monitor or have you changed your display settings on the computer sounds like that may be set to the wrong setting for your monitor. beating on the CPU will only kill your hard drive.