Could my monitor problem be the motherboard?

[squirrel15]

My acer P191w monitor isnt working. I finally build my computer and I turned it on for the very first time, I got the monitor from my brother who never had any problems with the monitor before. Here is my build:
Thermaltake V9 case
Gigabyte 890gx mobo
Gskill 1600 cas 7 ripjaws ram
Antec truepower 750w PSU
ATI (xfx) 5850 (stock not overclocked)
Seagate barracuda hard drive
LG cd dvd writer
AMD 955 BE CPU

My monitor turns on fine, it says "ACER" then it says "no signal" about 4 seconds later. Both the mobo and monitor have a DVI cables/ports. My computer turns on fine, all the fans and PSU works too. I looked all over the internet and have tried the power cool down with the monitor (unplugging monitor and holding down the power button), I've tried unplugging and blowing in the cables and making sure theres not bend wires or anything and plugged them back in and still nothing. I have read that it could be the motherboard. Any ideas as to whats wrong and how I can fix it would help greatly. Thanks.

 

[jedimasterben]

Just delete both of those partitions you see, and then select it as unallocated space, and Windows will make the partitions for you.

 

[squirrel15]

Thanks I'll try it.

 

[bilbat]

Don't just 'let windows make' the partition - tell it the size (disk size - ~24G), or it will use the whole thing, and leave you with no space to put the XpressRecovery backup. Unfortunately, I can not give you a 'pictorial' guide to this step, as I can't let any windoze installer touch any of my partition - I have an illegal amount - more than four - on both boot arrays...

 

[squirrel15]

I cant delete them. it says in little print below that "to make changes to the paritions, you must restart windows from your installation disk" or something like that. Remember I already have windows 7 installed and now I'm redoing it.

 

[bilbat]

Try doing what it says - reboot with the win install disk in the drive, and be sure to select 'Custom (Advanced)' at this screen:

 

[squirrel15]

I tried, no dice. I think it wants me to uninstall windows 7. I think thats might what it means by 'restarting windows from the installation disk'.

 

[bilbat]

Download this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/0.5.2-1/gparted-live-0.5.2-1.iso/download
As with memtest, burn the .iso file to a CD - boot to it; it will allow you to delete your existing partition, and create a new, properly sized one - be sure to make it an NTFS partition, this is a linux partitioner...

 

[squirrel15]

Theres no way I can put it on a usb? I've already used two of my friend's cds because I thought the first memtest didnt work. If I have to burn it I will but I'm just wonderin if I have to burn it to a cd.

 

[jedimasterben]

What is wrong with letting the Windows installer create the partitions? You can either have it use the entire drive or customize the size.

 

[bilbat]

He's already got a (too big) partition, and for some reason, the win installer seems not to be letting him delete it - don't know why, as it should, but my test bed uses a boot manager that puts too many partitions on a drive, so I dare not let a win install 'touch' any of 'em, to test quickly... (Already did a seven install to one of my partitions to generate some how-to pictorials)

using gPartEd on a USB is too complex:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/liveusb.php
let me see if I can quickly find something else free that will get the job done...

 

[jedimasterben]

He didn't boot from the disc, and it knows not to delete a live file system.

Curious, why do you have so many partitions?

 

[bilbat]

Acckk! 'Nother good reason to build every system with a floppy drive - I can find about six tools that will 'live' on a floppy, nothing simple to run off a USB key... And booting to a 'key' isn't all that simple to begin with... May have to skip this, too - I really will feel bad if I let you 'get away' with a system with no 'emergency recovery' setup...

 

[bilbat]

and that's just on the first two RAID0 pair of WD VR's, doesn't count the data partition on the third RAID1 pair of RE3's, or the six linux partitions on the fourth logical drive... [:bilbat:8]

 

[bilbat]

Squirrel - without me reading back through 134 posts, what is the brand of your hard drive - might be a tool from the manufacturer...

 

[jedimasterben]

Curious again; why so many different OSes?

 

[bilbat]

Well, gets a little complex... I do industrials, factories, process plants (beverages, ice cream, whatever...), machines; typically, the plant itself is run by a 'dedicated' industrial controller, which is hooked up, usually via ethernet, to a micro running some flavor of windoze, and a touch-screen operator interface, which lets 'em run their plant like a multi-screened video game: check that tank's level, open this valve, run that mixer, select 'recipe number 237'... This 'attached' machine almost always acts as a 'data collection point' as well; production statistics, automated inventory control, live energy consumption figures, what have you. The aggravating part (using the multi-OS dev system) is that the guy in inventory wants his data ODBC'd to a server cluster running SQL server; the guy in the production department wants his data in an Excel chart, and he's running Xp, with a copy of Office 2000; the guy doin' energy auditing is on a Vlinux box run off a Unix server cluster; the company execs, who really have no use for the information, are running some flavor of seven, and want their data in some god-awful thing I've never even heard of - and on and on, ad nauseam! So, it's beneficial to me to be able to boot to any damned thing, as the 'glue' program's always 'supposed to work', but until I see it work, I'm not all that confident [:bilbat:2]

 

[squirrel15]

I have a seagate barracuda, 500 gb.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148395&cm_re=barracuda-_-22-148-395-_-Product

 

[jedimasterben]

Well, gets a little complex... I do industrials, factories, process plants (beverages, ice cream, whatever...), machines; typically, the plant itself is run by a 'dedicated' industrial controller, which is hooked up, usually via ethernet, to a micro running some flavor of windoze, and a touch-screen operator interface, which lets 'em run their plant like a multi-screened video game: check that tank's level, open this valve, run that mixer, select 'recipe number 237'... This 'attached' machine almost always acts as a 'data collection point' as well; production statistics, automated inventory control, live energy consumption figures, what have you. The aggravating part (using the multi-OS dev system) is that the guy in inventory wants his data ODBC'd to a server cluster running SQL server; the guy in the production department wants his data in an Excel chart, and he's running Xp, with a copy of Office 2000; the guy doin' energy auditing is on a Vlinux box run off a Unix server cluster; the company execs, who really have no use for the information, are running some flavor of seven, and want their data in some god-awful thing I've never even heard of - and on and on, ad nauseam! So, it's beneficial to me to be able to boot to any damned thing, as the 'glue' program's always 'supposed to work', but until I see it work, I'm not all that confident [:bilbat:2]

It hurts my brain to think about all those partitions! [:graywolf:7]

 

[bilbat]

Ahh - Tom's is alive, again! I'll see what seagate has to offer...

 

[bilbat]

'SeaTools' for DOS, available here:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools
has an 'erase track zero' function that will clear your drive, but it has the same problem - either need a floppy, or have to 'burn' an .iso to CD to make a 'bootable'; answer me this: does your case have a place to put a floppy?

If you want to (and recognize that you may have to do an OS reinstall should you eventually decide to move to RAIDs, and won't have an 'emergency' copy of BIOS and OS), we can just skip this step, and proceed to OS install, onto the partition you've already got...

 

[squirrel15]

Yes, we should just skip the step. Sorry if I havent been on the forum a lot, its midterm week pretty much and I'm studying like crazy!

 

[bilbat]

Blast in the OS then; while you're waiting for it, you can be studying [:bilbat:5] In the long term, it's a MUCH more important use of your time :lol: What's your major?

 

[squirrel15]

Kinesiology. The study of the body, motor mechanics, muscles, bones, ligaments etc. You can do physcial therapy, sports/athletic training, and many other fields.

 

[bilbat]

Fascinating! While I was in prison, I had a job 'reading' books onto tape for 'visually challenged' students at UW - one of the books I did was a sports medicine text - learned a ton of useful (and interesting) stuff! Have a case of 'mouse shoulder' right now, that I thought was cancer returning, and turned out to simply be that my mouse pad is a bit high for me - biceps tendon irritated in the humeral bicipital groove... Working on it - found raising my chair an inch made a big difference, remembering to change glasses to keep from leaning forward with the wrong focal length helped, and am working on an articulated mount for a support pad for my wrist... [:bilbat:8]

 

[squirrel15]

Haha, I'm still only a freshman. I play football for a Division 1A school in WAC (western athletic conference) right now. I played last year and it was fun! Got to play againt USC, Stanford, Boise State, etc. And this year we play Alabama first game, Yikes! So how did go from prison to being a tech-support vigilante? lol