Intermittent BOOT GRAPHICS

[Youngie1337]

Howdy again

,

been having a slight issue with my useless GT210 (not been using rig for anything other than programming, so not needed to upgrade yet).

Whenever I power on my PC I get a flash of the POST, BIOS INFO etc... but it flashes once or twice and then monitor stays green (button) as if it has information, but nothing is displayed. Removing the cable & inserting again confirms it's booted into Windows, but then the display disappears again.

I have to restart about 3 times before it works, and it has nothing to do with the lead. I've tried reseating the card, changing the PCI priority (so it uses PCI as primary display first), still same problem.

Bit confused as to what it could be considering it does work after 3 restarts, and works flawlessly when it decides to show the image. I've tried VGA & DVI, they're both the same & the problem still exists.

The GT210 doesn't require any power source other than through standard PCI connection.

Specs:

Sabertooth P67

2500K @ 4.4GHz - Noctua D14

2TB HDD

HyperX 8GB 16xxx

750W OCZ PSU Fatal1ty

NVIDIA GT210

Any ideas?

Thanks a lot

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

try chanign the refresh rate to 59/50 mhz and if that helps it

also whens the last time you updated your drivers?

 

[Mrboxfacetramp]

my friend was having similar problems and turned out his psu was delevering dirty power ;] Hope that helps, and it was a OCZ Fatal1ty 550w psu ;]

 

[Youngie1337]

my friend was having similar problems and turned out his psu was delevering dirty power ;] Hope that helps, and it was a OCZ Fatal1ty 550w psu ;]

That's the thing, it receives no power input other than mobo delivered power. I shall try another card when I get chance to grab one, but it's rather weird lol.

Thanks for the answer.

try chanign the refresh rate to 59/50 mhz and if that helps it

also whens the last time you updated your drivers?

The refresh rate has no affect @ POST afaik, and I'm not even booted into Windows to load the drivers. Once it gets an image it's fine, and the PC works great and even if there's no image Windows boots up.

There's also no light indication or warnings of faulty or incorrect hardware. The P67 features a 'light system' which shows origin of fault, nothing shows on the mobo.

First things first, cable, card & then PSU (only just got this PSU 3-4 months or so back).

Thanks for reply.

 

[Youngie1337]

Replaced card & cable still doing it. Guessing it's my monitor, will have to replace that ASAP then

.

Stupid thing.

 

[Rastalovich]

DHCP, just wish they'd get rid of it.

Many a time anyone can go into their driver settings and it'll say DHCP invalid or the link is not established.

Age of the monitor versus the implementation on the card.

 

[Youngie1337]

Got myself a new monitor (went from useless LG 2005 model 17" 1280x1024 res) a brand new Acer 22" LED, 1920x1080, 12,000,000:1 contrast.

Problem sorted.