Monitor turns off when Windows XP starts.
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z00mer




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PostPosted: Sun, 23rd Apr 2006 15:08    Post subject: Monitor turns off when Windows XP starts.
My monitor turns off everytime Windows starts.

AMD Opteron 165 at 2.5ghz
Acer AL1914 LCD 19" monitor
GeForce 7800gt 256mb
1gig mushkin ram
DFI Infinity NF4 motherboard
Dual boot Windows XP x64 Professional and Fedora Core 4

Lately I've been swapping out the VGA cable from the monitor to my video card and putting the end into the VGA adapter for my Xbox 360 to play on my monitor. Everything was fine whenever I swapped back and forth. Then this morning when I plugged the cord back into my computer, the monitor kept saying "no signal" then the green light turned orange like it was in standby. I could hear the music for Windows starting up over the speakers and even when I powered off even though the monitor was not turning on (no signal it kept saying). I tried unplugging and turning back on, turning monitor on and off, etc. NOTHING fucking works. Evil or Very Mad

Everything is fine during the POST and I can go into the BIOS and the monitor works. Same for when I go into the dual boot menu, I can load Fedora up fine, and I can go into safe mode and the monitor doesn't shut off. I can also go into VGA mode and it is good.

But when I try to go into Windows normally the goddamn fucking monitor turns off. What the fucking hell happened????!!!! I'm sorry but this is pissing me off to no end. I even tried another monitor and the same goddamn thing happened. The monitor just goes into standby mode whenever I go into Windows XP. The only time it didn't was when I plugged it into the S-Video on my tv, then it worked. But with monitor's? No.

Please someone help me before I put another hole in my wall. Fucking anything would be helpful. (google doesn't help for shit on this one) Oh, and I also went into display and turned off the auto-standby too when I went into safe mode and still nothing. I also changed the OSD timeout on my monitor to 60 instead of the 20 where it was at. Nothing.
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skidrow
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PostPosted: Sun, 23rd Apr 2006 15:19    Post subject:
what about safemode?


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AwE




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PostPosted: Sun, 23rd Apr 2006 15:25    Post subject:
I guess there is something wrong with your refresh rate.
try to boot up with a tv hooked up or in save mode and fix the refresh rate and/or resolution to something your monitor supports.
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Sublime




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PostPosted: Sun, 23rd Apr 2006 16:58    Post subject:
Well I had this problem myself a few weeks ago. I tried it on 3 monitors and I couldn't get to safe mode either. What I had to do was crash my hard drive by unplugging the drive as the windows loading bar was up. This popped up the 'safe mode' option BEFORE windows tried to load (by pressin F8 it still was black) anyway I went to safe mode and reinstalled drivers.. no luck. So I uninstalled the g-card completely and it worked.

Strage reason why this happened, because my initial problem was my 24 inch monitor had a magnet mark from my speakers. So i turned it off and back on again, but it wouldn't boot. I tried loadsa power cables and even a new monitor and had the same problem. I tried it on a TFT too which should auto-adjust the refresh and stuff, it's just a weird bug that was frustrating (especially when I couldn't get to safe mode).

Still, this problem should work... also check in c-mos wether your drives have been switched because that was changed too :/


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z00mer




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PostPosted: Sun, 23rd Apr 2006 22:39    Post subject:
I was able to fix it. For now. While in safe mode I went to system restore and restored it to yesterday's date. It worked and I updated to newer Nvidia drivers. So far, it seems to work. I can boot into Windows normally. I don't know what the hell caused that to happen. But I hope it doesn't happen again anytime soon.
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Sublime




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PostPosted: Mon, 24th Apr 2006 02:34    Post subject:
I had to uninstall the card completely not new drivers or a roll back. Weird :/


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psychoace
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PostPosted: Mon, 24th Apr 2006 05:02    Post subject:
z00mer your just seems like driver's curroption or a bad setting.


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morpheus69




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PostPosted: Mon, 24th Apr 2006 11:48    Post subject:
There seems to be a problem with DaemonTools.. once I removed that all has been fine. And I can reboot without fear of not getting into windows cause my monitor went to sleep. It's the sptd.sys driver (windows/system32/drivers/). Boot with your XP disc, and then use the recovery console to rename or delete that file.
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