Why would my monitors not display, but when i rebooted my pc, everything was back to normal?

[nick1302]

I started my pc up, and both of my monitors were black with a thin white border. I shut down my pc, and rebooted, and everything is working fine now.

 

[Brian Boru]

rebooted, and everything is working fine now

Did you ever watch the TV show 'The IT Crowd'? There's a reason their default response on the phone was "Have you turned it off and back on again?"

Iow, that fixes maybe 50% of the unknowable glitches to which PCs are susceptible. If it's a one-off, don't worry about it

 

[Colif]

restarts are the most simple fix to a pc problem.

As long as it only happens once, its not a problem...

 

[nick1302]

Did you ever watch the TV show 'The IT Crowd'? There's a reason their default response on the phone was "Have you turned it off and back on again?"

Iow, that fixes maybe 50% of the unknowable glitches to which PCs are susceptible. If it's a one-off, don't worry about it

Sane thing just happened

 

[Brian Boru]

Bummer

In that case, you'd better tell us a bit about your system, so our experts have something to work with. Particular interest in all the components, drivers and connections involved in the video sub-system, incl what Hz and resolution the monitors run at, and if that's 'native' for them.

Here's a guide:

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[Colif]

We should know his system by now, we helped him build it.

Try running DDU (link explains) in safe mode, remove the GPU drivers, boot back into normal mode and install newest again. See if that helps

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[Brian Boru]

We … we

Who's this 'We', Paleface?