I'm not hardware savvy so I'll try to explain this as best as I can.
I have an old monitor that I use with my desktop PC. I was using a VGA cable, with a DVI adapter, to plug the monitor into my onboard graphics card (the horizontal DVI slot). Today I bought a new monitor. It has both a VGA and HDMI slot. When I try to connect the new monitor in the same way (VGA with DVI adapter) I get the "Check Signal Cable" (analog) message bouncing all over my screen. I can hear the PC starting, but all I see is this message. I tried with the HDMI cable too, but got the same result. On the flipside, when I plug the VGA cable into the vertical VGA slot the monitor works fine, as in I can watch videos and browse the net without issues, but I cannot get any video games to work.
I figured it may be an issue with the monitor itself so I plugged my old monitor again just to test things out, and now even that won't work. The VGA with DVI adapter method gets me the same "Check Signal Cable" message.
The monitor came with a CD so I installed a driver for it off of that. I've checked to see if my drivers are up to date and they seem to be. However, I've also realized that my NVIDIA drivers are no longer recognized and when I try to open NVIDIA control panel I get a message that an NVIDIA graphics card was not detected in my system. All I have right now is the Intel HD Graphics driver.
I hope I explained this well. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate, Service Pack 1, 64 bit, Build 7601
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7, CPU Count: 4
Total Physical RAM: 8 GB
Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics
Motherboard: Dell Inc. 06D7TR, ver A00
System: Dell Inc., ver DELL - 6222004
I have an old monitor that I use with my desktop PC. I was using a VGA cable, with a DVI adapter, to plug the monitor into my onboard graphics card (the horizontal DVI slot). Today I bought a new monitor. It has both a VGA and HDMI slot. When I try to connect the new monitor in the same way (VGA with DVI adapter) I get the "Check Signal Cable" (analog) message bouncing all over my screen. I can hear the PC starting, but all I see is this message. I tried with the HDMI cable too, but got the same result. On the flipside, when I plug the VGA cable into the vertical VGA slot the monitor works fine, as in I can watch videos and browse the net without issues, but I cannot get any video games to work.
I figured it may be an issue with the monitor itself so I plugged my old monitor again just to test things out, and now even that won't work. The VGA with DVI adapter method gets me the same "Check Signal Cable" message.
The monitor came with a CD so I installed a driver for it off of that. I've checked to see if my drivers are up to date and they seem to be. However, I've also realized that my NVIDIA drivers are no longer recognized and when I try to open NVIDIA control panel I get a message that an NVIDIA graphics card was not detected in my system. All I have right now is the Intel HD Graphics driver.
I hope I explained this well. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate, Service Pack 1, 64 bit, Build 7601
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7, CPU Count: 4
Total Physical RAM: 8 GB
Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics
Motherboard: Dell Inc. 06D7TR, ver A00
System: Dell Inc., ver DELL - 6222004