Monitor goes to sleep on bootup on an intermittent basis. Second or third try usually brings up the display. I have an MSI MS-6702 K8T Neo series mainboard, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Display Adapter, Samsung SyncMaster 173P monitor, using Digital mode, and running WIN XP Pro in RAID 1 (Security) mode. I have removed and cleaned with alcohol the display card contacts, removed and reset the monitor-to-computer cable at both ends and it is not covered over by other cables or bent sharply, and have the latest drivers for monitor and card. Everything beautiful after successful bootup. Questions: Why the intermittent failure? Could CMOS battery be a factor? Date and Time are fine. All help would be appreciated. Many thanks.
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Monitor goes to sleep on bootup on intermittent basis
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KESTREL1:
Thanks for the suggestion to replace the battery. Will do that after a little more experience. In the meantime, after posting my message, followed Samsung's suggestion for checking the monitor, which was to shutdown, remove the monitor cable from the computer, then turn on the monitor. Saw the floating logo, indicating that the monitor passed the test. Then turned off monitor, reconnected and booted up, which it did normally, and everything has worked normally since, booting up on the first try after being idle overnight and several times since to test. Wonder if disconnecting the monitor would somehow have cleared the intermittent problem(?).
Thanks for the suggestion to replace the battery. Will do that after a little more experience. In the meantime, after posting my message, followed Samsung's suggestion for checking the monitor, which was to shutdown, remove the monitor cable from the computer, then turn on the monitor. Saw the floating logo, indicating that the monitor passed the test. Then turned off monitor, reconnected and booted up, which it did normally, and everything has worked normally since, booting up on the first try after being idle overnight and several times since to test. Wonder if disconnecting the monitor would somehow have cleared the intermittent problem(?).
It is always possible. What you could try is to disconnect all power from the PC, so that no mains is getting to the motherboard. If after reconnecting, (I would leave it overnight if possible) the monitor doesn't come out of sleep mode it could be the battery. If not, what you have done may have sorted it. If it does happen again, I would replace the CMOS battery next. They only cost a couple of pounds (UK)
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Kestrel1: Installed a new battery this afternoon. It checked in the high green on my meter; then after installing it, checked the old battery and it checked just slightly less but well into the green zone. Used the PC for several hours, then this evening shut it down and it took several tries before the monitor displayed. Tried the screen saver and it shut off on schedule and restarted OK. Set the Standby and it responded on time but could not be restarted. Then I laid the tower over on its side and it restarted on the first try. I've noticed this before in the course of working on it, that things seem to work better when the PC is lying on its side(?). The display card is secured on both ends and is tight in its AGP slot.
Any further thoughts on the subject. Getting suspicious of the display card but would like to avoid buying another one if that is not the problem.
Any further thoughts on the subject. Getting suspicious of the display card but would like to avoid buying another one if that is not the problem.
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Kestrel1: The card has a heatsink, no fan. It is clean and used an eraser on the contacts today but that made no difference. Also made arrangements to borrow a monitor and cable to try the analog setup. In the meantime, the replacement 1GB of RAM arrived and I installed that this evening, putting the 1GB in the #1 slot and the 512MB in the #2 slot. PC booted up normally; screen saver activated at the scheduled time and went off with a mouse click; tried Standby, it worked on schedule and to my amazement both PC and monitor came alive at a mouse click. Don't know what is going on but I'll be happy as a clam if the PC boots up normally tomorrow morning. Incidentally, I see there is an abundance of problems similar to mine posted here: Thanks again.
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