I spent some time today preparing my old HP to network with my new P4. I removed the old DSL modem and an IDE controller card. I blew out the dust (not much surprisingly). I installed a NIC (D-link). I put the CDRW that had been on the IDE Controller as Slave (and jumpered it as Slave) on the same cable with the DVD. I closed it up and tried to boot.
It did POST, checked RAM and so on, then the WinME boot screen flashed and went to a blinking cursor. After a few seconds, the cursor gave way to a completely black background and a white box in the middle with the note above: "Input Not Supported". Windows continued to boot and apparently was fully booted into Windoze which I found when I got into Safe Mode and watched Scandisk run because I had shut down the power without doing Shutdown, since I couldn't see it.
I have no trouble booting into Safe Mode and I figured it had something to do with the monitor being different than the one I had been using so I went into Device Manager and eventually removed all monitor references (there were about 6 which I thought made it more likely this was the problem). It made no difference and still didn't do any better once I got the correct driver installed. By this time I was using Ctrl-Alt-Delete to reboot, so I didn't have to worry about corrupting the hard drive. I went back into Safe Mode and removed all but one Display Adapter, no joy. I went in again and removed the remaining one and Windoze put one back as I rebooted. Still no joy. I removed the NIC and still no joy.
At this point the computer is on and the "Input Not Supported" is dominating the screen.
The computer is an HP custom with 700Mhz AMD slot A. It has a 15 gig Maxtor hard drive, a DVD, CDRW, Nvidia video and a sound card (nothing fancy). At this point, there are no peripherals attached and the NIC is removed.
I would appreciate any ideas for how to proceed next....
Input not supported
reducing the refresh rate of the monitor in advanced settings of display properties? IS the refresh rate to high for the monitor your using?
right click desktop/properties/settings/advanced/monitor ( well you know this but for the other people)
I had left the HP on with the "Input Not Supported" screen while I was doing other things including reading my messages here. After Variable's suggestion I went over to see what I could do with it and found that my screen saver was running merrily away in very good resolution. I moved the mouse and went back to "Input Not Supported". GRRRRR....
I may end up having to reinstall Windoze, but I would really rather avoid that for the moment. After I get everything set up on this computer the way I want, I plan to do that anyway, but I want to transfer some things first. I also would really like to just figure out what the heck is going on.
What I have done now: I tried the advanced settings and they simply said that the information is unknown since it was in Safe Mode. I tried changing settings on the monitor itself and used Reset. It is lining up the picture better with the Autoconfig, but it isn't showing me Windoze in Normal Mode. I disabled almost everything in msconfig and no joy. Right now it is sitting in Safe Mode and I will experiment some more before bed, but I am not sure what else I can do. I am going to look at Device Manager again to see if I missed anything there.
I just went in and found out the highest resolution on my graphics card is 1024 x 768 and the acer monitor is set to 1440 x 900! There is a CD with the acer and I had that in the drive but with no video I couldn't ask my computer to go get it unless it was doing it automatically.
Will the CD give my computer 1440 x 900 resolution? Is it worth trying to get this monitor to work with my computer seeing as how I am not running Vista?
The problem is that your hertz rate is set to 75 and your acer monitor doesn't support that. Go into the dispaly settings and change the hertz rate to 60. Fixed my a couple of minutes ago
What this means is that there are indeed monitors just for Vista, this is so because it has to do with DRM and Copyright issues..
Vista has special software that "Talks to" software in these Monitors.
Also you need a suitable Video Card that will "Drive" the 19" Monitor. These MUST be installed, as should any "Monitor" Drivers too.
As said, there are "Drivers" for Monitors too, if a CD came with the monitor this must be installed also.
It may say The input not supported but that may simply be, that at the present Video Card settings for the "Size & Depth" are incorrect for the Monitor.
Try booting into "Safe Mode" F8, and set the Monitor for say 800x600x16 bit color. Reboot & if it come up with a picture, when at ya desktop ya can then adjust the screen resolution for your optimal size and color depth, by right clicking and selecting "Properties" from Menu.
All I can say is WOW! I have been using my pc with my monitor for months and I was installing a new printer and must have wiggled something loose, and all I was getting out of my monitor was "INPUT NOT SUPPORTED." So I came to this forum, and low and behold, if you DO NOT have another monitor to hook up to your PC, please do this in the sequence I have listed as this was my fix
1. Power down PC (you will have to do a cold/hard shut down by pressing the power button as you cannot see your desktop due to this message).
2. Unplug monitor from the power strip *and* from the back of the monitor itself, freeing the cord completely
3. Plug power cord into monitor *FIRST*
4. Plug power cord into the power strip
5. Turn on monitor power *FIRST*
6. Turn on power to PC
This *hopefully* will get you up and going. If not, then you will need to try to get another monitor to adjust the display settings (60 hz and 1440 x 900 @ 32 bit). You can get to this by (I have Vista):
1. Left click mouse anywhere on desktop
2. Go to properties
3. Go to display settings
Once you have completed this (again, hopefully with an extra monitor you have somewhere so you are able to see what you are doing) then do the entire sequence up above again by shutting down, unplugging power cord completely to monitor, then powering monitor on first before PC, this is a hugely important step. I really hope this helps someone. I have spent the past 3 hours wanting to yank my hair out!
1. check the power cords- make sure all are snug.
2. check and make sure no pins are bent in the cord to the computer
3. make sure that the monitor is not in auto-power save. Or in auto off mode. For example- is the light amber or green.
4. finally, make sure that your settings on your computer are not set to power off your monitor- as in a blank screen saver, power save or hibernate
