June 2019

S M T W T F S
      1
234 5678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30      

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Sunday, April 4th, 2010 01:58 pm
Tried to wake up my computer from sleep mode the other day - monitor never came back on.

Connected monitor to a different computer, and it works. So apparently, I have a situation where my PC, on boot up, is not recognizing the presence of a monitor. (DVI Without any sort of display, this makes troubleshooting extremely hard.

Anybody ever heard of this one?
Sunday, April 4th, 2010 22:49 (UTC)
My Vista laptop has had the same problem and I've only found 3 things that work

(1) When it first started happening repetitive - ALT-TABs would wake it up, but that hasn't worked for me in a while.

(2) Then I would hold the power button down to get it to "wake up", but that doesn't work anymore either... so I

(3) Set the PC to stay on all the time (never sleep)

Luckily - I have almost enough money in my piggy bank for an iMac! Good luck Dave!