on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 09:34:55AM +0200, A.E. Roy (ae.roy@organizer.net) wrote: > ...when I turned it on, the machine seemed fine, but the monitor > didn't display any image, it was on on indicated by the blinking > standby. If the monitor is Green Star rated (power saving features), these are triggered by vsync and hsync signals. Lack of one, the other, or both, pushes the monitor to blank, standbye, or power-off modes. > ...then after xxx tries it suddenly worked. Sounds like flaky hardware. > So I got myself into the BIOS, reset the factory default, didn't help, > even had this alphabet-soup in the bios!!! Swap your monitor and/or video cards (both if possible) and isolate the problem to one or the other. Consider the possibility of a bad monitor cable. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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