Mark Knecht wrote:
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. While
doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it worked fine. I
unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the new rig. The new
monitor is a Gateway EV910. When I boot with the Gateway EV910 hooked up,
it doesn't even come out of power saver mode or show the BIOS screen that
pops up when I first turn the puter on. It does work with the one I used to
install with, EV700. So, I know the card didn't mess up in the switch.
Since it doesn't even work with the BIOS screen, this is not a OS issue. Is
there some setting I have to change to be able to change monitors or am I
just going nuts here? What is it about hooking up a different monitor that
makes it not work? Both monitors support the same resolutions and I have
switched these before with my old rig and not a single problem.
What am I missing? Some new feature that the video card remembers what
monitor it is supposed to hook up to?
Thoughts? Fixes would be nice.
Dale
Like old Bill C. said "I feel your pain."
I've got a newish Samsung 22" monitor I'm using on this computer. It
works great. However recently I tried reinstalling Gentoo on an older
Mac Mini. This same monitor, when attached to the Mac, would boot
Gentoo from the CD, showing text on the screen for about 10 seconds,
and then seems to go into some sort of power savings mode where the
text becomes so dim that you almost can't read it. I found in that
case I had to turn the lights off to see what the Gentoo install disk
was telling me to do. I figured out what I had to type to get yaboot
to boot, but it was a mess.
I never found a solution to this and just gave up as the Mac was too
slow. You might look for BIOS level power management stuff and see if
it's turning off or dimming the output?
Good luck. I feel your pain...
- Mark
Well, I was out of ideas and I don't think anyone else had any either.
It was just plain old weird. So, I tried one more thing. I called
Office Depot and asked them if they still had a LG 21.5" wide screen
monitor in stock. They HAD one left. Note the key word had there.
:-) I now have a really nice monitor and it is black like my new Cooler
Master case. I try to find something good in everything, except hal. lol
When I set up my old rig for my Mom, she will have a pretty nice size
monitor to surf the net on.
Thanks for all the ideas. I think we can put this to rest now. The
monitor just didn't like me building a new rig. Oh well.
Dale
:-) :-)
P. S. Any food donations would be appreciated. I was planning on this
in a couple months after I had paid some on the new rig. :/
