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help! computer's not working.
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*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?
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?
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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?
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?
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...
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
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.
thanks to all of you who tryed to help though.