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

[Don Wood]

Were you actually serious about this?


On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 09:27 -0500, Casey DuBois wrote:
> I've got a pile of FREE 15-17" CRT's in Jenison if anyone wants some.
> Casey
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: john-thomas richards [mailto:jtr at jrichards.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:24 AM
> To: grlug at grlug.org
> Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Monitor Sleeping, Sorry, My first Post...Ever
> 
> 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.  :-|
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> john-thomas
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