delay of monitor on xp startup

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Al Botteon

Suddenly my monitor will not come on until xp already has me at my desktop.
My first thought was maybe monitor getting ready to go on the fritz. Haven't
done anything new to my homebuilt AMD 1.0 GB, 40GB HD, 256RAM tower that's
been running great for a long time.
 
the brightness is turned way down...then windows desktop settings takes over
and brightens it?
 
No that's not on the right track. Monitor settings never touched, and as I
check, they are on quite bright. Machine boots, you can listen to power on
beep, hear all the hard drive workings, hear the scanner fire up, all while
monitor remains black, with indicator light on monitor kinda flicking
between yellow and green, then all of a sudden you'll hear a monitor click,
and I'm at my desktop; never get to see initial screens where you see screen
to hit setup, see bios string, etc b4 windows screens start.
 
Al Botteon said:
No that's not on the right track. Monitor settings never touched, and as I
check, they are on quite bright. Machine boots, you can listen to power on
beep, hear all the hard drive workings, hear the scanner fire up, all while
monitor remains black, with indicator light on monitor kinda flicking
between yellow and green, then all of a sudden you'll hear a monitor click,
and I'm at my desktop; never get to see initial screens where you see screen
to hit setup, see bios string, etc b4 windows screens start.
Click to expand...
try removing the cable and reconnecting to the vidcard., If its been in one
position for a while it may be dirty.
a flickering power light is not a good thing, the monitor could be going
power supply/ tube getting weak.
 
Some computer builder. Sometimes the simplest, logical eludes me. Worked
perfect right after I turned computer off, unscrewed and removed monitor
cable from video card, reseated it, and rebooted. Thanks JAD.
 
Whoops, spoke too soon. This morning on startup, same problem. Guess I'll
use contact cleaner and compressed air on connection and try again.
Otherwise, mite conclude monitor going to pot.
 
if it fixed it once, you probably found the solution. Remember by
reconnecting the cable you are'moving' the card itself. Maybe the fault
correction lies in reseating the video card.
 
Man, I don't know. I did what you said, unplugged video card, cleaned all
points of contact, reinserted, and same problem. Thing that I can't figure
is that on any restart, works fine and I get opening bios string screen,
etc. Yet on first fire up, nothing until finally a monitor click, and I'm at
my desktop.
 
Al said:
Suddenly my monitor will not come on until xp already has me at my desktop.
My first thought was maybe monitor getting ready to go on the fritz. Haven't
done anything new to my homebuilt AMD 1.0 GB, 40GB HD, 256RAM tower that's
been running great for a long time.
Click to expand...

That sounds similar to what one might see if the motherboard has on-board
video, you added an AGP card so there are two video devices, and had the
BIOS set to initialize the wrong display first.
 
Don't know how I could check this. No other problems. Maybe I'll try another
monitor just to see what happens.
 
JAD, You know, I appreciate your interest and your help. So what I did was
take another monitor sitting in my heap of computer crap (takes up a lot of
space, I've been building them and fixing, etc for years) and I hooked it
up, and as soon as I fired it and the computer up, my bios screen appeared
immediately. So I'm going to figure that my monitor is somehow going. I've
had it since '97. In fact, on initial boot while that little monitor light
flickers somewhat between green, yellow, and dark green, I can hear some
tiny clicks going on. Then after awhile as I said before, I'll finally get a
dark green light and a very audible click, which is when the monitor gives
me my desktop. Why it all happens correctly on reboots (rather than initial
cold boot) is something I don't get, but shit, there's a lot I don't get. So
for now I'll just put up with the extra minute when I turn everything on,
and go from there, expecting at some point soon, that this monitor will
finally crap out for good. Again, thanks for your interest. Firm beliver in
this newsgroup, and over the years, it always gave me answers, when quick
remedies failed.

Long live alt.com.hardware.pc-homebuilt
 
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