Re: Monitor goes into standby mode during boot up

make sure that you did not set the AGP apeture too high in the bios.

"TVeblen" <killtherobots@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When I boot my box (cold boot or warm) the monitor works normally during
BIOS screens and right up until after the Windows XP splash screen
disappears. Then there is a pause in the boot process, the monitor power
button changes from green to orange, a 10 second or so delay, then the
power
button turns green again and the rest of the boot goes normally. I'm
trying
to eliminate this minor annoyance.
The graphics card is an Asus branded Radeon 9800 Pro with 256MB. The MB is
a
P4C800E-Deluxe. There is no on board video.

When I first built the system I hooked it up to a MAG 720v CRT monitor via
the analog connector on the card. There were some issues getting the
monitor
to work with the Radeon. I had to set some non-native resolutions and
refresh rates on the monitor. The delay occurred with the MAG from the
get-go. Obviously, the event occurs because the display is changing from
default 480x640 at boot to the preset display resolution when Windows
loads.
I figured it was a MAG related problem and knowing I would upgrade the
monitor eventually, I ignored it.

MAGs can be weird that way, If you set a odd 'USER' setting in the OSD of
the MAG it will react strangely when windows boots.


So yesterday I upgraded. I moved a Dell 1901FP LCD digital that I have
been
using on another system for 2 years and hooked it up to this system via
the
DVI-D connector fully expecting the boot issue to disappear. No luck.
Still
does it. This delay does not occur on another XP system with an ATI Radeon
9200SE card, either with the new LCD monitor or did it with the old 1901.

I have:
Installed the monitor drivers.
Updated the video driver (way back, during MAG days). (*see next post for
additional driver issue).
Checked to see that the resolution and refresh rates are native to the
monitor and the card.
Changed the resolution and refresh rates to other native settings.
In BIOS, toggled the PnP aware OS option from Yes to No, and from No to
Yes.

Other than this boot delay, everything works fine with the video.
Anyone have any ideas on solving this annoyance?




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