Computer won't recognize monitor

aphaeresis

I woke up this morning and turned my computer on out of sleep, and nothing would display on the monitor. I then tried rebooting, still nothing. After a few more reboots I received a strange error message that said something about there being new disk or a new drive being recognized and then the screen went blank and then the startup logo for my motherboard appeared, but it was all garbled and wacky looking like someone had tried to smudge it out with an eraser. On the next reboot the logo loaded normally, but then the screen went blank again as the computer continued to boot up.

I then tested a different (working) monitor on the computer in question to make sure that it wasn't my monitor, and I also tested my monitor on another (working) computer in order to make sure it worked. The working monitor didn't work on the computer, and my monitor worked fine on the other computer. I also tried plugging the monitor into both of the graphics card slots. Then I took out the graphics card in order to test my computer with the on board graphics, but after taking out the graphics card I noticed that there was nowhere else to plug the monitor into. That's pretty much where I run out of ideas. My fiance suggested that I ask here before going out to buy a new graphics card to test with. Below is a link showing a picture of the back of my computer with the graphics card in it, in case I'm just retarded and couldn't find the on board graphics slot.

Thanks for the help.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/OrphanRose/1006091406.jpg

Tofystedeth

Unless that fuzzy whitish area above those USB and ethernet cable is an onboard video port, you probably don't have onboard video. Based on the first error message you got + wide variety of other systems, I'm inclined to think your motherboard is going haywire.