I get no signal on initial startup but if i manually restart it it starts up normally as if nothing is wrong. The card works fine, its just annoying. I was wondering if there is a solution to this and also if there is a reason that while playing left 4 dead 2 that my windows xp clock loses time. thanks

yes, on initial startup of the computer. the monitor is an Acer X223w.

i have checked that the monitor and gpu are both in correctly.

yes, when i manually restart the computer everything works fine as i am typing this on said computer. its more annoying than anything that i just cant turn my computer on and it work. I've updated everything i could think of and it still does it.

the l4d2 thing is that when i'm done playing and close it, my clock is like 10mins slow.

thanks for the response