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Hi all;

My monitor will not display an image if i boot it normally, however when i boot into safe mode it works fine.

Thinking it is something to do with the refresh rate and the resolution i restarted, pressed F8 and booted into vista's low resolution mode or something like that but the the monitor still does not display an image.

Any ideas of how to sort this problem out?

Your help is much appreciated

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Brief, practical summary tied to the thread: described a display that only appears in a limited-graphics environment, and suggested driver-related checks. That pattern most often points to the graphics driver, a display handshaking problem, or an intermittent hardware/cable fault rather than a permanently dead monitor. The following checklist and tips focus on isolating those possibilities quickly.

  1. Confirm POST/BIOS output first. If the screen shows the BIOS or POST messages, the problem is almost certainly on the OS/driver side. If the screen is blank even for POST, treat it as a hardware/cable/GPU power issue.
  2. Swap the video cable and try a different input or a second known-good monitor. Faulty cables or adapters are a very common cause of intermittent blank screens.
  3. Reseat the graphics card and check any PCIe power plugs; test the board with the integrated GPU (if available) or a different card. Look for bent connector pins and loose screws.
  4. Use a clean driver removal (in a minimal/repair mode) and then install the latest driver from the GPU vendor. If the problem is driver corruption or a bad update, a clean uninstall followed by a vendor-supplied driver typically fixes it. Consider a clean-boot to rule out a conflicting startup program or service.
  5. If available, boot a live Linux USB to confirm whether the display works outside Windows. That separates OS/driver issues from hardware faults.
  6. Check Event Viewer and Reliability Monitor for display-driver crashes, GPU timeouts, or related errors; note timestamps to match failures.

If the fault clears on its own, it often indicates a transient handshake or driver glitch. If it recurs, capture exact symptoms (when POST appears, any on-screen messages, the time of failure) and replace the cable or test with another GPU before buying a new monitor. Follow electrostatic-discharge precautions when handling hardware.

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Is this a laptop or desktop machine we are talking about?
You may need to check that the driver is ok. Look at the device manager tree and see if there is a yellow icon on top of the device driver. If this is the case, you will need to re-install the driver.

What is the max resloution your monitor can handle? It is essential to know this because set it to a higher one beyond the recommended can fry ur VGA.
It will work in safe mode as the resolution is set normally to 800 x 600.
Try booting the machine into safe mode and set the resolution to 1024 x 768 and reboot.

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somehow fixed itself... don't ask me how it did it, it just did lol.

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