[GRLUG] Monitor Sleeping, Sorry, My first Post...Ever

[Rick Vargo]

Are there any sort of adjustments to your onboard video card besides
turning it off?

Rick


john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 09:24:13AM -0500, john-thomas richards wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 08:59:45AM -0500, Adam M. Erickson wrote:
>>     
>>> Well actually my second, my first time it was in RTF on accident,
>>> really sorry for the mess that posted.
>>>
>>> THis is going to sound like a low tech solution but somethimes that is
>>> the best fix. You mentioned that the monitor dims on serveral of the
>>> same type of machine running Knoppix and/or XP. With/without NVIDIA
>>> and changes to all bios settiengs you can think of.
>>>
>>> The only other solution I can think of is that your monitor is either
>>> shot or has a messed up energy setting. Have you tried replacing the
>>> monitor and did it dim when you started the memtest?
>>>       
>> I am wondering if the monitor is the cause.  That seems to be the most
>> logical at this point, though I did have the same result with an LCD on
>> one of the attempts to install [XP|Knoppix] (I do not remember which).
>> I am not sure if I have another CRT around!  When I bought my house a
>> year and a half ago I got rid of a *bunch* of stuff, including old 15"
>> CRT's.  I may have one in the garage.  May.  :-|
>>     
>
> I forgot about the CRT on the lone Windows machine (for games) I have.
> :-)  The bad news is that swapping monitors gives the same results,
> though this time the monitor has a message about shutting down in five
> seconds (definitely a monitor message, not from the OS).  I am stumped.
>