Monitor doesn't power back on during reboots
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 by Bebi Bulma | Discussion: Personal Computing
I'm using an ATi Radeon 9600xt AGP 8x 256mb video card on Windows XP Pro SP2 on EPoX EP-8KRAIPRO Socket A (Socket 462) VIA KT880 ATX AMD Motherboard. Ever since I installed the card and mobo, when I reboot my monitor doesn't power back on (not just *this* monitor, my uncle's CRT didn't come back on either). I can't figure out why the monitor doesn't come back on, I have to do it manually. It will go into what I guess is sleep mode and just stays that way. I have to turn it off and turn it back on. The power settings in the desktop properties are all set to never.
Any ideas how to fix it so that it will just power itself back on?
Any ideas how to fix it so that it will just power itself back on?
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vStyler
Reply #23 Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:25 PM
Thought you were allergic to cam's Steph? or was it just MSN?
anyway, sorry to read this thread, sounds like one of those probs might just put you in the looney bin
Hope you get it resolved soon.
Reply #23 Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:25 PM
I just installed the software for my new LifeCam
Thought you were allergic to cam's Steph? or was it just MSN?
anyway, sorry to read this thread, sounds like one of those probs might just put you in the looney bin
Hope you get it resolved soon.
Bebi Bulma
Reply #24 Friday, June 15, 2007 12:16 AM
Reply #24 Friday, June 15, 2007 12:16 AM
The NFO error doesn't say anything other than "This NFO file cannot be opened blah blah" and that's after the System Info dialog pops up. Don't have a clue what is trying to open the file, or what the file is. Same thing with the .cfg file notice.
At this point I'm not too worried with the monitor not coming back on, it's just an annoyance (unless there actually *is* something worse going on). It's these stop error reboots and other issues that are getting to me.
Once I start getting some income I plan to do a full system upgrade and replace all this hardware, but that won't be an option for a while yet. *sigh*
At this point I'm not too worried with the monitor not coming back on, it's just an annoyance (unless there actually *is* something worse going on). It's these stop error reboots and other issues that are getting to me.
Once I start getting some income I plan to do a full system upgrade and replace all this hardware, but that won't be an option for a while yet. *sigh*
Bebi Bulma
Reply #26 Monday, June 25, 2007 4:26 AM
Reply #26 Monday, June 25, 2007 4:26 AM
An update: figured out the nfo and cfg stuff; I goofed and copied the speedfan.exe into startup instead of just a shortcut to it. Sorted all that out.
Monitor still doesn't come on, but oh well. Not too concerned about it.
On another note...my E drive disappeared, seems my IDE controller card decided to kick the bucket or something because the drive itself is fine. Had to unhook the D to hookup the E (5 devices all together, hence the controller card). Next step: replace those two drives with a huge SATA drive.
Sorted all that out.Monitor still doesn't come on, but oh well. Not too concerned about it.
On another note...my E drive disappeared, seems my IDE controller card decided to kick the bucket or something because the drive itself is fine. Had to unhook the D to hookup the E (5 devices all together, hence the controller card). Next step: replace those two drives with a huge SATA drive.
PurrBall
Reply #29 Monday, June 25, 2007 11:06 PM
That darned nose messed up again...
Reply #29 Monday, June 25, 2007 11:06 PM
Did that two weeks ago.
That darned nose messed up again...Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
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Reply #21 Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:16 PM
do you have another vid card available?