Re: Safely swap monitors?


"Choreboy" <choreboyREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Neighbors have a computer that won't work after a lightning strike.
> With the video cable connected, the monitor stays black and in the
> standby mode. There are howls from the speakers, like feedback. With
> the cable disconnected, the monitor will briefly show a notice that it's
> not connected. There are no howls from the speakers although the mic
> cable remains connected.
>
> With the power off, I checked the pins of the monitor cable to see that
> the grounding pins were grounded and the signal pins were not. One
> grounding pin is open, so it seems certain that the monitor is damaged.
>
> The next step would be to try another monitor to see if there's other
> damage to the system. In case the computer's video card is damaged, can
> a monitor be damaged by plugging in to it?

'Probably' not, but why not try plugging their monitor into your computer?
That's extremely unlikely to cause any damage. Then, I'd take *everything*
out of the neighbor's computer, except the vid card...unplug memory, all
drives including floppy...just leave in the CPU and vid card.

See if it boots up and asks for memory. If so, install that. Keep
going--adding one device at a time--until you find a problem device...skip
that one on the next go-round, until you've ID'd any and all such.

Rinse, lather, repeat.....

jak


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