monitor communication question

I was given a pc by my father, everything but the monitor. I had an old monitor which I was going to use with it. Anyway when turned on the Dell startup screen comes on then the Windows logo, then as Windows starts to load it goes staticky. If I hook up it up to my other monitor its fine. I would think that if it were a bad monitor then I would not get the crisp clean images at the beginning. Any thoughts or suggestions?

 

as i understood your monitor is very old, and if you worry about your health it's worth to buy a new monitor.

 

What do you mean if I worry about my health?

 

Anyone?

 

plaphon did you mean the pc's health?

 

Ah, I work in IT for GE and we run into this all the time with old monitors. In our case, it means the monitor is too old to display higher resolutions, and so as soon as the Windows load logo goes away, which is at a lower res, and Windows or it's login prompts comes up, the screen turns to complete worthless hash.

Try pressing F8 as the PC loads to get to the boot menu for Windows, then select VGA Mode. This should fix it. Then you can set the resolution to 800x600 and you should be good to go.

 

my apologises for answering so late, but i was talking about this thing. old minotors have a small refresh rate, low brightness and other thing which become bad as times goes by. So because of this you have to peer at the screen and you eyes get tired and go bad.

 

Thanks Sidecutter and everyone else,

I did as sidecutter said and presto it is running right. I did not even have to reset the resolution.

 

Glad I could help, Crimsn. I only suggest changing the resolution afterwards because the default resolution for VGA mode is 640x480, which is pretty hard to work with, especially in an OS that can display as many useful extras as XP can. Stepping up to 800x600 is definately recommended, and your monitor should handle it fine.