Re: monitor with alphabetic-soup.
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 09:34:55AM +0200, A.E. Roy wrote:
> I have a new computer with some problems. When I got it, I powered it
> up, popped in my bootable debian cd, and it all went just fine. For the
> record; I've installed debian on 10+ machines, mostly old machines less
> than 200MHz cpu.
>
> Then I powered it down for the evenning, and the next morning I had some
> problems 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
> lamp, it was kind of like the machine didn't manage to push the monitor to
> start. I know that the monitor is fione, because I'm using it right now.
>
> I tried several things, tryed powering down, using the boot floppy,
> but it didn't help, I tried all imanaginable, then after xxx tries it
> suddenly worked. Well, I thought that something very exotic had happened,
> and that I just had to do a fresh install, and so I did. But it happened
> again the next time I turned on/off, but the monitor works fine when I
> reboot(init 6). After another xxx tries the monitor came "online" again,
> still don't know the exact circumstances under which I manage to start
> it again. Then, on this another fresh install the picture started to
> behave very strange, every letter got it's own color! And only parts of
> the screen was updated(try fdisk under this circumstances!). Then all
> the letters started to apair like an alphabetic soup(looked like the
> installation was in some odd east-european language).
>
> So I got myself into the BIOS, reset the factory default, didn't help,
> even had this alphabet-soup in the bios!!!
>
> Anyone experienced this before?
>
> Motherboard:Chaintech 7aja2-100, via kt133a chipsett. CPU:duron 850 MHz.
> HD:western digital 40GB/7200 RPM. Videocard:CardExpert nvidea tnt2 32mb
> AGP TV-out. monitor:hansol 710A.
I would try turning off any power saving features in the bios. If that
doesn't work turn off apm if you have it enabled.
hth,
kent
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