Windows ME KDS Monitor Boot Problem

[Wabitt00]

I have a Compaq 7151 wm with 1.4 gig p4, 256 ram, Nvidia asylum 5200 vid card, 80 gig harddrive. I use a KDS 19" monitor, VS190i. I have installed all of the latest dirvers and updates including the latest from MS. After power failure or power off monitor, the computer will not complete a reboot. It hangs after the windows ME screen, with a black screen and cursor. The only way to get it to reboot is to remove the monitor, and or replace it with a diferent one, i.e. hp s70 is what i normally use. From there it boots to safe mode and I can usually get it to recover with system restore although sometimes it won't comlete the system restore reboot the first time either. Occassionally I can get a reboot if I disconnect the monitor, and printer before the sartup. After system restore I just switch monitors and rebooot. This doesn't appear to be mission critical as recover is usually complete, but very time consuming, and I lose restore points for a while also so if it happens to many times I could be i a fix. Any ideas?

 

[edfair]

How about power down for the first 10 seconds or so of the reboot? Any difference?

Ed Fair
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[Wabitt00]

It occurs when monitor and pc are off at the same time. I can do soft or hard boot while monitor is powered on but not if monitor is off for any length of time. This machine was purchased without a monitor. I actually took it in for warranty service and had to pay for it because there was nothing wrong with the machine, it booted fine at the shop! Took it home and it wouldn't boot. Called KDS they said they had a problem with some bad cables with too many pins, I checked mine was correct. They were out of ideas. NowI am too. I tought it might have been the drivers as there was an MS update and KDS driver change recetly but no fix.