Computer Won't Output Display

Juantjie · 30 Sep 2011 at 13:15

Hey guys. The other day I was just moving my monitor closer to the bed for us to watch a movie, and I had to unplug the DVI cable. When I tried to re-plug it in, I was touching the output of the cable and the input of the monitor at the same time, and somehow it shocked my hand. When I plugged it back in the monitor said there was no input signal.

Do you guys think this is a problem with the cable (maybe I did something to it) or the GPU itself? Hoping not it's the GPU of course, it's my most prized possession. I've plugged my laptop in to the same DVI port on this monitor and it works fine.

I'm thinking if I buy a new DVI cable, maybe it would work? Are there any other tests I should go through? I'm hoping that you can't bust a £220 GPU just by shocking yourself with an output port?

mickyflinn · 30 Sep 2011 at 13:20

Are there any other ports on your graphics card u can use to hook up to your monitor? such as a vga cable. If that dont work when you try it then your gpu is gone.

Skepticx · 30 Sep 2011 at 19:04

try a different cable (vga/hdmi). if that does not work try via your onboard vga if you have one.

Juantjie · 30 Sep 2011 at 20:00

Thanks for the help guys. Tried using a different DVI cable, and tried using the HDMI output on the card - still no signal being recieved. Going to see if I can take it to a repair shop or something, I dunno. Sad times.

(close thread please)