Troubleshooting Tips: Weird Monitor Error Half Black Screen Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so this is one I've never seen before the uh screen is clearly divided
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down the middle with one half being functional
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and the other half see exactly half being entirely nonfunctional and I've
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gone into the screen resolution already and I've uh verified that it is running
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at the correct setting if I bring the mouse if I move it over to the right
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side you can see it takes exactly the same amount of time for me to bring it
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back over to the left so there is clearly desktop back there
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but it's not being displayed I've tried unplugging and plugging back in the
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monitor once and so far that hasn't fixed it so when I resolved this and
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this is a known good graphics card as far as I know it just worked but once I
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resolve this I will let you guys know what it ended up being but I just
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thought I'd share this with you I've never seen this before so it was doing it everywhere in
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the BIOS in Windows even after I
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unplugged the graphics card and it was giving me like you know no signal
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connected error like it would be over here and I wouldn't see it and it would
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be over here and I'd see it and it would be here and like it would cut off half
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so what I did was I disconnected the monitor completely from Power D um data
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everything and then I waited like 10 minutes and plugged it back in and now
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it works so I have no idea how that happened but that's a tech tips moment
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that I thought I'd share with you and this is why it is so hard to produce
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these videos because there is so much stuff like this that goes on behind the
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scenes you wouldn't even believe it