Is My Monitor or Another Component Causing This Boot Issue?

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The discussion centers on a boot issue where the monitor fails to display a signal, indicated by a blinking LED, while the PC components appear operational. The user, Himanshu, experiences intermittent functionality when switching between the graphics card and the motherboard's video port. A suggestion is made that the graphics card may be failing, and troubleshooting steps include resetting the BIOS by removing the motherboard battery and cleaning both the video card and motherboard from dust.

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Hi

I have this problem cropping up lately, whenever i start/power on my PC, everything seems to work, but not the monitor the led just blinks with no video signal no error no beep. But it starts working when i connect it to the Motherboard's video port, but then again when i restart it would go through same problem: evthg/cpu/fan working but then my monitor is blank with LED blinking. Again when i connect monitor to the Graphics card, it will work, some kind of periodic thing but i am too tired to keep changing the ports...

I am using Graphics Card, despite this I am now able to connect my monitor through motherboards video port which was not possible previously when there was no such problem

Help is highly appreciated
TIA

Regards
Himanshu
 
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It sounds like the video card is dying, if not dead. I have a computer currently that has stripes of color about an inch wide streaming down the monitor. I think that I will have the same problem as you shortly.
 
try this
reset your BIOS by removing the MB battery and shorting the appropriate jumber
then clean your vedio card and MB from dust
 

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