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flushje

Hey lads, hope Im posting in the correct place.

I have my 32" HD TV hooked up to my PC, through my graphics card. I control everything with my ATI command centre. However, this morning, only my 32" was working(when I turn my pc on, both screens came on, but desktop screen went to powersave and turned of). My was messing around with settings and I ended up pressing some clone feature, this turned my 32" screen of(like my desktop screen). So, at the moment, none of my screens work, when I boot my system, my desktop screen gets me by the boot menu, to where the windows icon appears, then the screen turns of.


Any ideas on how to sort this? Will a restore do it? Can I restore via the boot menu? To be honest im not very good with computers, Im sure you can determine that by my terminology!


Any help appreciated, thanks.

samhail

i would check your manual if i were you. i dont know what laptop you have but there should be a keyboard hotkey to change the screen output.
on my HP laptop i click on the blue FN key and f4. that will swap the screen outputs.

Outkast_IRE

Hey i had a similar problem when i pressed clone by mistake i got a round it.
Is your monitor hdmi or vga ?
my monitor took both hdmi and vga so i just used the vga cable instead and used a dvi to vga converter at the back of the comp?

flushje

samhail wrote: »

i would check your manual if i were you. i dont know what laptop you have but there should be a keyboard hotkey to change the screen output.
on my HP laptop i click on the blue FN key and f4. that will swap the screen outputs.

Its a PC, my bad, I should have mentioned.

flushje

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Hey i had a similar problem when i pressed clone by mistake i got a round it.
Is your monitor hdmi or vga ?
my monitor took both hdmi and vga so i just used the vga cable instead and used a dvi to vga converter at the back of the comp?

Its work fine for months, its HDMI compatable HD TV

marco_polo

Can you boot up in safe mode?

Or if that doesn't work perhaps if your motherboard has an on board graphics card you could remove the main card for now and try to get back into the pc that way.

Adder1

if you are running xp you could try restoring from safe mode not sure about vista though anyone know?

Outkast_IRE

Im talking about your desktop monitor is that using a dvi cable ? Is it possible to change to a vga cable this might cause the graphics card to check for a new monitor and you might get a picture?