Monitor will only come on in power save mode

[Sunnydelight54]

How do I get the monitor out of power save mode? It is a Sony HMD-A24, and was working fine after a hard disc format until I opened the casing of the hard drive. I've checked the board connection and tips, and tried to use the menu button on the front of the monitor. Help!

 

[victorv]

hi,

there is no relation between monitor-power-safe-mode and
disk-case.

Also if you have a PC without disk, your pc at bios level
gives signal to video, that passes from power safe mode
to normal mode. You can see BIOS info, logo, and bios-devices menu, prior that the system acess the disk and
the Operating system.

If your monitor ramain in p.s.m., probably it is not
well wired to PC or it has some front-switch moved
(for multi-cable possibility) or your PC has more than one VGA port (the original + the new VGA adapter) or unforunatelly, you have broken 1 of the pins in the male cable connector of the video.


good luck

 

[bcastner]

I agree with victory above, but the other possibility is that your machine is not POSTing at all.

My guess is that in moving the hard disk drives you disconnected a power lead in the processor area, likely the fan lead.

 

[edfair]

Or the video card partially unplugged enough to lose contact with the system.

Ed Fair
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[Sunnydelight54]

Thanks much guys. Actually I didn't open the casing - my overeager son did instead of waiting for me to get there - will kill him later ;-)

I will check these things out today and hopefully it'll be the simplest solution. Appreciate it and will let you know! Again thanks, Lisa