Just wondered if anyone else has had these problems or has ideas how to fix them.
A couple of weeks ago, I installed some windows updates – after the shut down and restart, I could hear my drive starting but the screen in blank – the monitor light blinks as if it’s not getting a signal to wake it up?
After much trial and error, I discovered that if I disconnected the montior and waited for the message “No signal input” and then plugged it back in while the computer was running (Not good for the motherboard probably) the screen was then working and could use the computer as normal – I now can’t turn the computer off, or I have to go through this process again, so I just put it into standby mode.
But i’m not the only one in our small community that is having problems – a few days before this happened to me, someone asked if I had a spare monitor – I gave them an old one, and they said it worked fine, they said theirs stopped working after a windows update.
I am also trying to fix another persons computer with very similar problems to mine but worse – they also started windows updates insatlling and went away – when they came back it said it had installed 3 or 5, but there was a warning message for Norton as well “something about deleting files” they can’t remember exacally – because they didn’t understand what it was all about they cancelled the Norton and the rest of the windows updates, but after they restarted the computer, they now have a blank screen as well.
I have tried putting their harddrive in another computer, but it comes up with a disk error. But I have also tried putting a good drive in their computer and I still get just a blank screen.
Somehow this seems to have damaged their video signal on the motherboard and their harddrive.