on Wed, 27 Nov 2002 05:37:47PM +0000, Pigeon insinuated:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:36:13 -0500, Nori Heikkinen
> <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote:
>
> >on Wed, 27 Nov 2002 05:55:11AM +0100, Robert Ian Smit insinuated:
> > > * Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> [27-11-2002 05:39]:
> >i can't turn the monitor on -- there is usualld a little LED that's
> >green when the power is on and active, and there is no light at all
> >right now. i get absolutely zero video -- no console; no X; no
> >BIOS when i boot up ... i tried a different power cable for the
> >monitor, but no dice. because i'm seeing no LED, i'm thinking this
> >is a plain hardware failure.
>
> When everything was working, if you turned the monitor on without
> turning the PC on, did this LED come on a different colour or
> something, and now doesn't? If so, it's almost certainly the
> monitor.
>
> If it only ever lit up at all when receiving video from the PC, you
> don't know yet if it's the monitor or the video card. Still more
> likely to be the monitor though.
yeah, unfortunately, i used to be able to get that little LED even
when the computer was off, and the monitor was just plugged straight
into the wall. it looks totally borked. :(
thanks to everyone for their suggestions and condolences, though!
</nori>
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