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Troubleshooting Tips: Weird Monitor Error Half Black Screen Linus Tech Tips

2010-11-19
so this is one I've never seen before the screen is clearly divided down the middle with one half being functional and the other half see exactly half being entirely non-functional and I've gone into the screen resolution already and I've verified that it is running at the correct setting if I bring the mouse if I move it over to the right side you can see it takes exactly the same amount of time for me to bring it back over to the left so there is clearly desktop back there but it's not being displayed I've tried unplugging and plugging back in the monitor once and so far that hasn't fixed it so when I resolve this and this is a known good graphics card as far as I know it just worked but that one side was all this I will let you guys know what it ended up being but I just thought I'd share this with you I've never seen this before so it was doing it everywhere in the BIOS in Windows even after I unplugged the graphics card and it was giving me like you know no signal connected error like it would be over here and I wouldn't see it and it would be over here and I'd see it and be here and I like it would cut off half so what I did was I disconnected the monitor completely from power um data everything and then I waited like 10 minutes then plug it back in and now it works so I have no idea how that happened but that's a tech tips moment that I thought I'd share with you and this is why it is so hard to produce these videos because there is so much stuff like this that goes on behind the scenes you wouldn't even believe it
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