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Ameraves

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Went to bed last night and my computer was working fine. Woke up this morning and the monitor light was blinking red, and the screen seemed to be sort of flashing. Tried pressing the power button on the monitor a few times and it didn't do anything at all. So I unplug it, same exact thing. Try rebooting the computer, same thing.

So I have to assume it is either the video card or the monitor. Only problem is I am not sure which. My first assumption was the monitor, because shouldn't the power button still work? So my first hope was someone here may be able to tell me if that is normal behavior for the monitor if the video card is bad. For reference I have a QNIX 2710.

I am going to try and borrow a monitor from my brother in law so I can test it, but figured I would try here first while waiting.
 
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Before you try to borrow a monitor, check if your motherboard has an output you can plug the monitor into to bypass the card to see if that works.

Usually when cards go bad, unless it friggun exploded or something, you get a lot of artifacts or resolution issues. You get bad input, not no input.

Also, how is your monitor hooked up? If it's with DisplayPort unplug and turn everything off for like 5 minutes then redo everything and see if it works. I thought I had a bad cable/connection one time and it was just that DP goes weird sometimes and after unplugging and redoing everything has worked again.
 
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Well, it does in fact appear to be the monitor. Also, I am totally retarded.

My video card is also hooked up to my TV in the office, which I had totally forgot about. Additionally, I had another Dell monitor in the other room that I grabbed. I had already plugged in the Dell when it occurred to me that I had the TV hooked up. Reason was because as the PC booted up, I saw the post screen on the Dell, but then it went blank. That's when it hit me that the TV was also plugged into the Video card. For some reason the Dell was the secondary monitor, and the TV was the primary. Turned on the TV, logged in, and everything is working.

So I guess that means I am ordering a new monitor
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I am bummed cause I have only had it a few years. Figured it would have lasted longer than that.
 
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Well fuck, I feel stupid. I went ahead and ordered a new monitor, and it got here already. Plugged it all in and it also had the blinking light. So I plugged it in with the power supply it came with, and it turned on. I went and grabbed the old one and plugged it in with the new power supply, and it was working. Apparently something went wrong with the power supply I had, even though it was still providing some level of power to the monitor.

I am annoyed that it didn't even occur to me to think of that.
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Now I have a 2nd monitor that I am not sure what I am going to do with. I don't really feel like sending it back and having to pay for shipping. So I may just get a stand and run dual monitors. Dunno
 
Ameraves

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Well, the power cord for the monitor. It comes with one of those bricks though, so I just called it a power supply.
 
Jysin

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Ameraves_sl said:
Well, the power cord for the monitor. It comes with one of those bricks though, so I just called it a power supply.
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You need to be careful with those power brick style cords. Read the brick itself and read the output voltage and amps. I am guessing it is converting your wall AC 120/220V 50/60Hz into a sold DC voltage and amps. The thing to worry about is the requirements might be completely different between your two monitors. I didn't read that you purchased an identical model, so you could very well overvolt / amp and blow one of them out. Compare output voltages on both of those bricks before swapping them around the two monitors!
 
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A new motherboard later, all is well. Though I spent an hour wondering if my m.2 was dead and I just had to figure out how to enable it in the BIOS.
 
Gilgamel

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Getting blue screens on my new machine. Did a fresh windows install, still going on. Sounds like a faulty piece of hardware. Machine check exception is the most common, but there are three or four.
 
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Gilgamel_sl said:
Getting blue screens on my new machine. Did a fresh windows install, still going on. Sounds like a faulty piece of hardware. Machine check exception is the most common, but there are three or four.
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Most likely..any additional info as far as error codes from the bsod? Any way to replicate it or is it random?
 
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matsb84_sl said:
Most likely..any additional info as far as error codes from the bsod? Any way to replicate it or is it random?
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Random, can happen seemingly any time. I'll have nights where it never happens, then nights where it happens every hour. I just flashed the bios to a new one and it hasn't crashed in a couple of hours. Knock on wood.
 
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Ive found most times when BSODs happen at random and sometimes not for periods of time it usually ends up being the ram. Maybe once or twice it has been the HD dying but its almost always the ram. Oddly enough in all my years ive never come across a bad mobo but ive come across a f ton of bad ram and each and every time it was g.skill, which is why i solely purchase crucial for my rigs.
 
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Left it running a stress test while I was at work today and it's still going. Cautiously optimistic.
 
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I'm having an issue that I am not entirely sure how to troubleshoot. I first noticed it while playing Witcher 3. From time to time the game stutters a bit, both video and sound, then goes back to normal. I thought maybe it was just an issue with the game, but now I have noticed it in some video playback as well (youtube, Facebook videos, etc.)

Like I said, I am really not sure how to even start troubleshooting to figure out what it is. My first assumption would be my video card, but I really have no idea. Any thoughts?
 
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Maybe start with this latency checker thing:DPC Latency Checker

I used it a few years ago when I was getting a lot of hitching and non-synced audio in cut scenes in a couple games. It didn't really help me diagnose what the problem was, but it did show me I had a problem. I resolved it by upgrading the PC and giving the hitching one to the girlfriend.
 
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Yeah, this thing is sorta cool because it shows I clearly have a problem, but there is no real easy solution it would appear. They suggest to go through and disable one driver at a time and watch for the bars to go back to green, and you can isolate the problem there.

I gave that a shot, and I never saw a change. Obviously you can't disable every driver, so I am sorta stuck. I do know when I first ran it, the bars were basically all red. I rebooted and everything went down to green and some yellow. I left it running and as the day went on the bars slowly started to climb into yellow and red. So yeah, no idea what the source issue is.
 
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