Little Problem I've Been Having...

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

System specs. (if it matters)VIA chipset with a 3400+ athlon (HP tower...bleh)1500mb ram7950gt600wat greenpower PU2 80gig hddsand a 22 inch lcd with hdmi input

For the past couple of months now something quite random and REALLY annoying has been going on inside my computer. It runs just fine...boots up quickly...no slowdown...

The only problem is, after i shut off the tower (manual shut-off from the start menu...no crashes) and restart it, I get no video.

This problem has happened twice before. For each of those times I just fiddled with stuff (nothing of importance really, just reconnecting connections and the gfx card, jiggling wires, switching between the two outputs on the back of the gfx card, and waiting for the whole pc to cool off) each of those times it eventually showed video again.

Now, however, I've patiently waited two days and still nothing. I can hear it boot to windows and I can hear my mouse click sounds, so I know it has to be something related to video components. As I stated earlier, a crash did NOT shut the computer off this time. So a graphics card fault would be unlikely IMO.

Now, the motherboard has an internal graphics interface and I'm wondering if it's possible that the bios switched it back to this output somehow? I need to test this so i'm going to go buy an HDMI to AGP conversion connector. Problem with the monitor?Problem with the cable?or Problem with the Motherboard knowing where to send the video signal are my main guesses here...problem is i don;t know how to toggle that.

Anyone ever experienced this or know wtf is going on?

[s0m3th1ngAZ]

sorry...but i fixed it for me!

turns out it's the cable...can't tell why though...and i'm using an agp cable with an adaptor now instead of a full hdmi cord...oh well. it works, and i don't have to buy a new computer, that's all i care about

[Beancooker]

Glad it is fixed. If the card had crashed, your motherboard would have made some extra beeps to let you know something was dead.