help! computer's not working.

Former Member

*sorry i know this is the wrong forum but i need help asap*

i've just set up my new computer (well new to me anyway) and the monitor seems to keep having a blank screen with a box saying: cable unplugged/ no imput.

i've checked the plugs, they are all sitting in there nicely and i think they are in the right ones, though the plug for the monitor doesn't fit in the one that i think is for monitors, the plug has pins and so does the one i think it meant to go into so i put it into another socket.

and yes it's all plugged in.

what do i do?

Former Member

Does the plug have all the pins? like in case any have snapped off.

Drivers usually aren't an issue with monitors, 99% of the time its plug and play, with all that coming later. So it does sound to be a hardware problem.

Is it an old monitor using an older style connection? FYI the port you should be plugging it into is on your graphics card - with what looks like a mouse port on there also.

Have you tried the monitor with another base unit?

Former Member

this is the same monitor that my mate used before i got it and he went off to india.

all the pins are there, and the mouse port is next to the keyboard port.

it just seems like i can't find the right port. there are 2 blue ports (the same colour as the plug) which fit, but both don't seem to work......

and the one that has a little picture of a monitor beside it doesn't fit. ........

what am i doing wrong?

Former Member

Some computers have two possible places for it as they can come with onboard graphics. Then someone might install a new graphics card.
If its plugged into the wrong one then it won't work.

It should be with all the things you can put in or take out of a computer like this...

This is what ours looks like...

Former Member

We have another place is can plug in up by the mouse & keyboard ect but we dont use the onboard graphics anymore so it would be the wrong place. Maybe yours if the same?

Former Member

Are you using the monitor on the same computer the last person to use it that worked did?

And if so how old was the computer at a guess? Some VERY old monitors used to have different sized plugs.

Count the pins on the plug

Indrid Cold

Re: help! computer's not working.

Originally posted by twisted_trinity
the plug for the monitor doesn't fit in the one that i think is for monitors, the plug has pins and so does the one i think it meant to go into

Sorry, does that mean that both the plug and the socket have pins? If that's so, it's not supposed to go there. The plug has pins and it's supposed to go somewhere with holes.

Former Member

sorted it. i think it was just a loose connection, because the next time i turned on the computer it worked. my next problem is trying to get it working with my internet connection, because i'm not all too sure if i still have the disk that came with the ADSL box.....:S

thanks to all of you who tryed to help though.