Display trouble..

Jui · Post by **Jui** » Thu May 15, 2003 3:23 am

I'm having porblen whit display auto power up.
When i turn my computer on display stays on standby mode. I need to turn of main power and then turn display manualy on to get it working. Troble started when i had to reinstall XP. Befor that all worked just fine.

Wolfram · Post by **Wolfram** » Thu May 15, 2003 4:22 am

Check in control panel if the correct monitor type is installed.

Jui · Post by **Jui** » Thu May 15, 2003 7:14 am

Thanks.
Installing the monitor drivers seem to help(for now). Funny I thoght that LG monitors were 100% plug and play competible..

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Thu May 15, 2003 8:25 am

Personally, I have never trusted the Plug and Play for monitors. Have always used the manufacturer's inf file, if one is available.

Post by **Derek** » Thu May 15, 2003 9:36 am

hyperspace wrote:Personally, I have never trusted the Plug and Play for monitors. Have always used the manufacturer's inf file, if one is available.

Ditto. Also, when you use the proper drivers more options may become available, such as, higher refresh rates.

Jui · Post by **Jui** » Thu May 15, 2003 10:03 am

Yep.. Think I lernd my lesson. Usualy I also use manyfacturer's drivers. But this time it just slipped for some reason.

Jui · Post by **Jui** » Fri May 16, 2003 2:04 am

Same thing continues. When computer is off like 20min. display satarts ok. But last night it was off for 6hours or so.. And in the morning troubles were back.
Don't know if it helps. But when I try boot my computer. It misses the first beep sound from system speaker. That is if it's turned off too long.
Any great ideas any one??

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Fri May 16, 2003 7:12 am

Have looked at your Power Management settings?

Jui · Post by **Jui** » Sat May 17, 2003 7:30 am

Yes I have. But not realy sure for what they shoud be..

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Sat May 17, 2003 10:19 am

There are 3 settings under Power Schemes:

Turn Off Monitor

Turn Off Hard Drives

System Standby

What are these set to on your computer?

Jui · Post by **Jui** » Sat May 17, 2003 10:28 am

Turn off monitor is. After 5 hours
Turn off hard Drives is. After 5 hours
Systen Standby is. Never

Post by **Derek** » Sat May 17, 2003 10:47 am

Eek! Power management options are evil! I make it a point not to use them, but that’s just me.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Sat May 17, 2003 12:14 pm

I'm sorry. I think I have misunderstood your problem. Your display problem happens when you turn your system. Is that, right? If yes, are you overclocking your system?

Jui · Post by **Jui** » Sat May 17, 2003 12:49 pm

That's right. And it started when I re-installed XP.
Not overclocking. I have dual 466 celeron's runing at def. speed. Graphics card is Sapphire radeon 9000pro 128MB and display is LG 19".
I think that problem may have something to do whit bios setings..? But don't know what setings shoud be..

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Sat May 17, 2003 3:42 pm

Could you give us a break down of your system configuration? Including many Watts that are supplied by PSU.

Jui · Post by **Jui** » Mon May 19, 2003 5:01 am

Here it is.

Agp slot. Sapphire radeon 9000 Atlantis pro 128MB
Pci 1. Empty
Pci 2. Empty
Pci 3. 3Com EthernetLink XL 10/100 PCI TX NIC...
Pci 4. Empty
Pci 5. Empty
Isa 1. Sound Blaster 16 Plug and Play (WDM)
Isa 2. Empty

Ide 1. CD Rom. 44X
Ide 2. CD-R/RW
Ide 3. Hard Drive
Ide 4. Empty

System BIOS. 04/20/2000-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1SC-RU
SMBIOS-version 2.2

Power suplys toal output is 300W.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Mon May 19, 2003 3:14 pm

eek i agree with derek, power management is eeeevvvviiilll

i don't even use the turn off monitor thing, i use the next best thing, the "blank screen" screensaver

Post by **Derek** » Mon May 19, 2003 3:51 pm

kuun wrote:i don't even use the turn off monitor thing, i use the next best thing, the "blank screen" screensaver

And I just turn off my monitor

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Mon May 19, 2003 5:09 pm

yeah, thats a good power saver,

but, i hate waiting to get on my computer, you turn the monitor off you gotta wait for it to come back up with a visable screen

me? i just up and away i go

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Mon May 19, 2003 7:49 pm

Jui wrote:Here it is.

Agp slot. Sapphire radeon 9000 Atlantis pro 128MB
Pci 1. Empty
Pci 2. Empty
Pci 3. 3Com EthernetLink XL 10/100 PCI TX NIC...
Pci 4. Empty
Pci 5. Empty
Isa 1. Sound Blaster 16 Plug and Play (WDM)
Isa 2. Empty

Ide 1. CD Rom. 44X
Ide 2. CD-R/RW
Ide 3. Hard Drive
Ide 4. Empty

System BIOS. 04/20/2000-i440BX-W83977-2A69KA1SC-RU
SMBIOS-version 2.2

Power suplys toal output is 300W.

You should have plenty of power for your system. Your Radeon 9000 is using one of the voltage circuits (3.3 volts, I think). The power supply will provide current on that circuit, to its rated limit. The graphics card may be pulling enough current to max out that limit and the system behaves in this manner. Have you tried a more modest graphics card? 32-64MB?

Jui · Post by **Jui** » Tue May 20, 2003 8:18 am

I had 16MB voodoo in pci slot but that was little bitt too modest..

So I had to by real graphics card. I think that my problem is more BIOS related.
Everything was working fine untill I had to change system battery. And it of course reseted BOIS settings. Then I re-installed XP and after that re-installed again whit ACPI and APM settings on.
Problem I have appears when computer is off for overnight. First I need press power button ones and then press it again for 5sec. to power down. Then I can boot normaly. I get feeling taht I'm missing somesort wake up singnal. If system is off for short period like 30min. or so everything works perfectly.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Tue May 20, 2003 12:18 pm

Did you have the same problem with the Voodoo card?

Jui · Post by **Jui** » Tue May 20, 2003 1:12 pm

No I did not. And didn't have problen with radeon 9000 before battery change and re-installations..

Wolfram · Post by **Wolfram** » Tue May 20, 2003 3:26 pm

So you´ve had a PCI card before and an AGP card now? Try to change the "primary display adapter" setting in the BIOS (I´d guess it´s "AGP" now and was PCI before). Maybe the BIOS has trouble recognizing the Radeon as an AGP card (just a wild guess;))

evergreencaw · Post by **evergreencaw** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:49 am

I first noticed my problem when my computer started refusing to wake up my monitor from APM sleepytime. I would have to hit the reset button, and then turn on the monitor right after the beep in order to get my monitor to turn on and not be in powersave mode.
This problem on bootup persists with APM disabled, and sometimes the pc doesn't beep, and then I have to reset until it does beep to get the display to work.

My display adapter is a savage2000, I have the RU bios, and this problem started with win2k but persisted after I reformatted and installed winxp.
Power supply is 250W; problem persists overclocked or not.

Any ideas? I've tried reseating the vidcard. I have an old 4mb pci vidcard I could try, is there anything in the bios I should look to change to fix this?
I was considering looking for a geforce2 or other video card for less than $5 to see if that helps, but I don't want to waste money if it won't fix the problem.