Monitor shows blank mostly but everything else is working

[megatron]

I can boot up from a bios reset, and get a blank screen; press del and f10 and enter to reset it and get a screen. Then I can try changing the settings and get another blank screen; and keep reseting in the hope of a screen.

While the monitor makes it to the desktop aslong as some game test doesnt set the monitor to have no output, the screen works; also I had to switch screensaver on and turn power saving on the screen to off.

When the monitor doesnt display anything, the power light flashes on and off at about a 2 second interval; all I can do is reset the bios and try to "jog" it into posting with a visible display.
This all happens at bios defaults, but I do get my overclock in there by just pressing f12 and hitting enter for saved settings.

Ive got a gigabyte p35-dq6, enermax liberty 500w, e2160, 2Gb pc6400 ram, x1900xt.
Monitor is a viewsonic vx922 19" lcd dual dvi input.

Its not a windows corruption since it does it on the bios screen, it could be either the graphics or the monitor, but I do not have any other components to swap out to test.

Any experiences/ideas welcome.

[Dingo]

Have you tried replacing the bios battery.....seems like it isn't holding any changes......a summary of your system would be useful


regards

T

[Clunk]

Are you using DVI?

If so, switch to vga and see if it works.

It sounds a lot like the dreaded Viewsonic DVI bug thing.