Cynyx wrote:Some money lost, i have just reserved my next monitor :
IYAMA Prolite E2403WS ... 24 INCHES ... A DREAM for working.
and a new video card :
Nvida 260GTX ... Perhaps a dream for gaming
Saturday will be the day of the test.
LMAO :
I have never take so much time to install devices in a PC.
Just after got the new devices (vcard + monitor), I choose to only install monitor first. So, I removed monitor from its packet. I plugged it (first time in HDMI mode, my mistake) ...
I switched on the PC... Black screen with a message " no signal"... Hmmm wtf. I plugged the monitor to card in SUB-D mode. I switched off the PC however i guess it was already load Windows. PC never rebooted after !!! BIOS, POST BIOS and rebooted in loop ... Tried to boot from HDD, CD and USB, all failed (I have tried all bootable things i have Ultimate Boot CD, Windows CDs, Recovery tools from USB...). DAMMMMMMMN !!! Just for a simple new monitor ! I Tried to remove all devices in the PC to localise the failed device. No chance, allways stupid reboots ...
Finally, I got the idea to flash a new BIOS to my motherboard (with an USB disk). OMG it works !!! PC boots again in windows ... just I have no integrated devices in motherboard now (soundcard, network and USB) ... DAMNNNNN...Mistake : I flashed a BIOS for v1.0 of my motherboard and i have the ... v2.0. I flash again MB to the appropriate BIOS this time. ALL work ! Just I have no integrated network now. I dunno why, it fails. so i installed an old PCI network card. PHEWWWWWW it's ok now : Internet is back
. (in same time, i got many problems during this story : IRQ conflicts, no network, Power supply probs, wrong drivers ... etc)...
I found later in menu of the monitor a function to switch between SUB-D and HDMI mode ...
Now, all is ok : 24 inches is really nice ... when u have time to install it