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PostPosted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 8:56 am    Post subject: PC connection query. Reply with quote

Hi,

Moved house, no telephone connection till Wednesday. Using Kindle and plug-in WiFi. Struggling.

PC is live. SPAM is live.

Monitor is connected to CPU (?) Tower by power cable, but does not switch on. No little lamp.

During the move, I seem to have lost the THIN wire that connects the monitor to the CPU. Could that explain the lack of monitor activity?

I have a complete PC assembly at my old house, but that is a nine hour return journey, and £60 in fuel. I had not intended reoturning just yet

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The monitor should have 2 cables minimum plugged in

One will be a "kettle lead" (commonly found in kettles)
Needs to be plugged into power socket
and the other will be some kind of video lead that will go between the monitor and the PC.
This will either be a VGA lead (usually blue connectors), or a DVI lead (usually on more modern PCs, with white connectors)
Some monitors may also have an audio cable... 3.5mm minijack, basically the standard audio lead... should not effect the monitor operation

It sounds like your monitor is powered directly from the PC power supply
(i.e the pc will have two big SPAM, usually black, power cables in the back)
... if so, it stays plugged into that rather than a power socket

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 6:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

I'm still struggling with SWMBO' s Kindle.

My monitor is connected into blue socket on back of the tower. Does the monitor run on mains voltage? If so, can I use the tower's kettle lead direct to the monitor to see if it lights up? If it does, can I replace the monitor's blue plug with a 3 pin plug and plug it into my six way surge protector?

If it doesn't light up, I think I will need a new monitor. ???

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the power for your monitor doesn't come through the 15 pin blue connector. The power comes through either a kettle lead (the same as the tower) or a power supply like you would have on a laptop. The blue lead is just the signal. (or white or hdmi on newer stuff)

If you plug the power lead in without the blue lead you will usually get a light on the front of the monitor come on and it might say something like searching for signal or no signal on the screen but there are that many different types it's hard to say exactly.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 2:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

Many thanks for your interest. Problem now sorted,

The telephone engineer who installed our fibre option land line put it right, not exactly sure how.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just out of interest - was the thin lead the audio/sound cable?
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