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by belizianrican

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my gateway EV700 makes a clicking noise and doesn't show an image. It also turns on and off as if it was loading a screen. what causes this and how do I fix it?

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by thechas

It is possible that your video card is set to a mode that the monitor does not support.

If you can see the POST and Windows start screens, this is the case.

Boot into Safe Mode, and set the display to the default resolution; 16 color 640*480.
If you do not see the POST screens, then your monitor may have gone bad.

The simplest thing to try, is another monitor.
If the system dows not work with another monitor, then the video card may be bad.

Chas

by sgt_shultz

Can you get it to do a self-test? power up the monitor without connecting the video cable to the computer. you should see a black background with a box in the middle with red, green and blue color bars. the first choice is 'monitor self-test'. if itself-tests without complaint, try it on another computer? see if the problem travels with the monitor? good luck, hope this helps a little

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