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Hi guys, I am in a bit of a predicament. I turn on my destop computer and the monitor does not show anything. I know that the computer is on because I can hear all of the internal stuff but the monitor just won't work. I tried changing the cord but nothing has worked and switching monitors. Any advice?

The monitor shows up and works perfectly but as soon as I connect it to the computer, it says "Entering standby mode".

Its a Pavilion p6710f. I even added 8 more gigabytes of ram because I thought that would help. My monitor isa LG Flatron E236V-PN
 
Sometimes broken RAM can make your monitor not work.

Maybe its your video card if you use a video card on your computer instead of onboard video which is built-into the computer's CPU, and the video port/plug is built-into the motherboard circuit board.

Maybe your video settings in your BIOS/CMOS setup was changed to PCI-Express which would turn off your onboard video. You can try installing a video card on your PC to see if your video settings was changed to PCI-Expess instead of onboard video.

Maybe its your hard drive or disc drive which is causing your computer monitor to be blank. Try unplugging your hard drive, and other drives which are connected to the motherboard, and see if your monitor turns on, and display the HP logo during startup.
 
Right, try to remove the RAM that you just installed, and be sure that your video card is in all the way if you are using a video card, and check the connection on both ends of the cable, and make sure that they are firmly plugged in. You might also try moving the cable around to see if you have a short (turned out I had one in the past, prevented me from spending more on another video card)

Try what was stated above and start unplugging drives one by one, and see if you can find the issue. If you have a multiple input monitor like I do (VGA, DVI, HDMI, and VGA), make sure that you are switched to the correct input. If you have a laptop lying around, you can always connect that to your monitor to rule out whether it's your monitor or PC. Believe it or not, I've worked on a computer probably the same model you had (judging by the images), for someone, and it turned out that their video card was loose. Something as simple as that could be your solution. Before I knew what the problem was, they asked about how much I'd charge them. I thought it was a video card, so I said around $40-$50. Turned out it was only the card being loose, and ended up not charging them.

Let us know if you have any updates! 🙂
 
Correct, make sure that is all the way into the slot, and if there is a screw at the top of the plate (screwing into the case), make sure that is tight as well.
 
Collin said:
if there is a screw at the top of the plate (screwing into the case), make sure that is tight as well.
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Well it doesn't actually need screwing in... Mine's not screwed in, it needs a minor adjustment here and there but it works.
 
R44 said:
Collin said:
if there is a screw at the top of the plate (screwing into the case), make sure that is tight as well.
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Well it doesn't actually need screwing in... Mine's not screwed in, it needs a minor adjustment here and there but it works.
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Yeah, it's not really necessary, but in some cases it works. I was working on someones that apparently had a short in it. I had to keep wiggling it around to find out what position produces a display. I was able to hold it with the screw, but, you never know, video cards can be tricky sometimes. I went through a huge case of them at school to see which ones worked and which ones didn't, and half of them were so old they didn't work 😛
 
How do we know what video card you have -- they're all different. But they will all have a VGA and probably a DVI port.
 
Hi I fixed it. Turns out I had a bad ram. I switched it out and I'm cleaning it with the others.
 
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