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Re: Acer AL1716 LCD Monitor dying?

Postby yeshuas » Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:42 pm

This is what I would do and the order I would take.

Try another Cable

Remove and replace the Video card if it is not an onboard graphics
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Re: Acer AL1716 LCD Monitor dying?

Postby augie » Sun Feb 01, 2009 6:10 pm

yeshuas wrote:This is what I would do and the order I would take.

Try another Cable

Remove and replace the Video card if it is not an onboard graphics


Don't you mean remove and reseat the video card Dan, with the power turned off of course.
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Re: Acer AL1716 LCD Monitor dying?

Postby yeshuas » Sun Feb 01, 2009 6:20 pm

augie wrote:
yeshuas wrote:This is what I would do and the order I would take.

Try another Cable

Remove and replace the Video card if it is not an onboard graphics


Don't you mean remove and reseat the video card Dan, with the power turned off of course.

Oh yeah sorry, just reseat the same card, I was hungry and waiting for my dinner when I entered that :oops:
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Re: Acer AL1716 LCD Monitor dying?

Postby jojo » Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:09 pm

yeshuas wrote:
augie wrote:
yeshuas wrote:This is what I would do and the order I would take.

Try another Cable

Remove and replace the Video card if it is not an onboard graphics


Don't you mean remove and reseat the video card Dan, with the power turned off of course.

Oh yeah sorry, just reseat the same card, I was hungry and waiting for my dinner when I entered that :oops:


:eek: umm welllllll, I wouldnt know what a video card looks like,lol
Hubby has a few months ago, opened the case to vacuum it out, so hes not afraid to go in there. But hes not a tech, so wouldnt know either. Thanks guys
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Re: Acer AL1716 LCD Monitor dying?

Postby augie » Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:04 pm

Look where your monitor is hooked up to your machine, if it's on a vertical line with other connectors then you have onboard video, if it plugs into a horizontal connector then that's where your video card is. I have two video cards. Yours will not be so thick though as mine take up two slots each.

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Re: Acer AL1716 LCD Monitor dying?

Postby jojo » Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:58 pm

awesome! Thanks Augie, I'll see if hubby wants to tackle this. So we just pull it out and back in again eh
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Re: Acer AL1716 LCD Monitor dying?

Postby yeshuas » Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:03 pm

jojo wrote:awesome! Thanks Augie, I'll see if hubby wants to tackle this. So we just pull it out and back in again eh

Well you will have to be careful as it may have a little plastic latch piece that holds the card, the latch will be toward the inside and connected to the motherboard. You just need to gently pull it back to release the graphics card.
I will see if I can find a picture for you.

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Re: Acer AL1716 LCD Monitor dying?

Postby jojo » Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:27 pm

Thank you Daniel, good thing you mention that.
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Re: Acer AL1716 LCD Monitor dying?

Postby jojo » Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:59 pm

Well all that did not resolve the problem. So my system is going into the shop tomorrow for a couple days.
He thinks it might be a motherboard problem.
I will post results back here.
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Re: Acer AL1716 LCD Monitor dying?

Postby yeshuas » Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:26 am

jojo wrote:Well all that did not resolve the problem. So my system is going into the shop tomorrow for a couple days.
He thinks it might be a motherboard problem.
I will post results back here.
Thank guys for your help

Did you try another LCD?
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