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I suddenly got a 'Check Signal Cable' after turning on my monitor. It was working this morning I checked the vga cable. Inserted it to another monitor and it worked I have a
Samsung S19A300B Radeon HD 4670 asus mobo and a pentium dual core e5300
i tried using other cables but it just displays "check signal cable" and 3 boxes with red green blue colors and a "Digital" just below it :|
kapitanluffy
Posted 2011-05-05T01:55:15.400
Reputation: 333
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It sounds like it's trying to use the DVI input for your computer instead of the analog VGA input that you want it to use. Some monitors try to autodetect this, while others you have to manually set. Is there a button on the monitor to switch inputs? You may also have to go into the monitor's menu to do this. I tried to find the manual for your monitor, but the product page on Samsung's website appears to have been taken down.
Dan Walker
Posted 2011-05-05T01:55:15.400
Reputation: 8 869
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I had similar issue: the monitor showed HDMI with five dots, and then analog with five dots and then it went to black screen with blinking red light.
To solve this: I downloaded the latest firmware for my monitor from the samsung website and restarted my computer and everything worked like a charm. Note that I installed the firmware from windows 7. It started working on Linux as well, I did not have to do anything for it !
pawanlri
Posted 2011-05-05T01:55:15.400
Reputation: 51
Yes, this worked for me. My s24a300bl stopped working after a few weeks of disuse. Windows identified it, but I just got the "Check Signal Cable" message. After installing the newest firmware, it works fine. – jdm – 2014-11-11T10:12:10.827
actually the monitor has 2 inputs one for the dvi and one for avg .same for my vcard – kapitanluffy – 2011-05-05T02:22:11.493
Right - What I meant was the monitor is looking for input on the DVI connector instead of the VGA connector. – Dan Walker – 2011-05-05T03:40:34.747