Display won't come out of standby?

[KJ]

Just built a new system 2 weeks ago/switched to XP SP2 Home from 98.
Standby worked fine. (Depress On/Off button on chassis to go into
standby, hit any key/mouse movement to bring the system out. No
problem.) Then suddenly a few days ago the monitor stopped cooperating.
I hit kybd/mouse and computer jumps to life with fans engaging, HDs
spinning up, etc... but the monitor's LED light remains amber. Nothing
brings it out short of the system reset button.

Note that I am still loading software and tweaking XP so it hasn't been
"business as usual" with only a few actions I can narrow down. I
rechecked BIOS settings and Power Mgmt settings and all looks just like
it did when it was working AFAICT.

SYSTEM:
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum mobo
Athlon64 3000+
1GB dual channel Mushkin RAM
Chaintech GeForce 6200 PCIe 128MB graphics card
CD ROM
Plextor 716SA SATA DVD/CDROM
120GB Maxtor HD
SBLive! Platinum
PolyView 19" LCD flat panel (w/ DPMS)
XP SP2 Home OS

BIOS in MB set to allow Standby with Power Button, to use DPMS Monitor
support in standby mode.

Things I've tried:
1. Going into Control Panel Power Options/Desktop Settings/Power. Set
the monitor to go into standby after 1 min, but left system going.
Monitor came out of standby as I expected it to, since the system did
not go into standby. (This was just to see if the problem was in the
monitor itself, even though it's new. But it is still *capable* of
coming out of standby mode, so...)

2. Rather than going into standby using the chassis button, I used the
Desktop settings menu to set the system to go into standby after 1 min,
along with the monitor. I realize this should not be any diff than using
the chassis power button but I just wanted to cross-check the problem.
It was duplicated as expected.

3. I tried turning the display's power button off when it would not
respond, then back on, thinking it would see the now-active system. It
doesn't. It's like the system isn't sending a signal, even though I hear
it waking up [and seemingly sending one].

Note: The system is not going into hibernation. Just standby. And again,
for several days it worked fine.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

KJ

 

[Guest]

Hi:

I have the same problem. Amber monitor light, can't get into computer
except in safe mode, reloaded XP with no help.

Let me know if you find the answer. ?display driver probelm

 

[kj]

Hi:

I have the same problem. Amber monitor light, can't get into computer
except in safe mode, reloaded XP with no help.

Sounds the same except for the safe mode problem which I don't have.
Computer reboots/resets fine in my case. But that defeats the purpose of
standby.

Let me know if you find the answer. ?display driver probelm

I found other people in Google/Yahoo! searches with this problem with
varying systems but no answer yet. As for it being the display driver,
that makes sense except in my case it all worked fine initially then
stopped working at some point, while my card/settings were not changed.
In fact the card doesn't really have settings. Just drivers.

 

[kj]

Hi:

I have the same problem. Amber monitor light, can't get into computer
except in safe mode, reloaded XP with no help.

Let me know if you find the answer. ?display driver probelm

Found my problem, at least.

First off I took a bit of a shotgun approach and did a few things b/f
trying it again and finding it worked, so I can't be positive which fix
cured it (after a few hours I don't have the patience to try one thing
at a time and reboot between anymore), but I'm pretty sure it was the
BIOS setting which I changed. However I also reinstalled my graphics
drivers, though there is no reason those would have been amiss but ya
never know. Something could have corrupted them/it.

My mobo (MSI K8N Neo4 Plat) has power settings for how to turn the
monitor off in standby. I had that set to DPMS mode, which is what I
*thought* it was at to begin with, and my LCD does support DPMS. But I
changed it to "V/H Sync+ Blank". This turns off the vert and horiz sync
and writes blanks to the video buffer. I'm not sure how DPMS functions,
but maybe my graphics card doesn't support it, though I find tha hard to
believe since it's a high-end PCIe.

I know. I should put the BIOS setting back to DPMS to see if it was
really that setting or reinstalling the drivers that did it, but I hate
to screw with it now. ;]

 

[kj]

Found my problem, at least.

No, I didn't. I couldn't leave well enough alone and wanted to know what
caused it, so I changed the BIOS setting back to see if that was it. The
old problem was back. But when I put the BIOS to the setting that had
worked 2 minutes before, no luck. I've been screwing with it ever since.
Even dowloaded an upgrade for the graphics card -- 27MB! on a dialup --
(why does chaintech make you download every upgrade for every card to
get the few files you need?). Nothing. Nothing has worked. It's fnarked.
And XP Help has no help.

argh....

 

[Guest]

KJ:

I got back into XP and now my monitor is listed in device manager. I think
that what I did to fix the problem is boot from the CD into Recovery console.
use the C: chkdsk /p /r command to scan your C drive. I think that is what
fixed my problem. Hope it works for you.

 

[kj]

KJ:

I got back into XP and now my monitor is listed in device manager. I think
that what I did to fix the problem is boot from the CD into Recovery console.
use the C: chkdsk /p /r command to scan your C drive. I think that is what
fixed my problem. Hope it works for you.

Good for you. I reinstalled mobo drivers, watched Deadwood's season
opener three times, and tried it again, and now it works. This time I
will not go looking for why, but it doesn't make sense and that makes me
a little nervous. Just hope it doesn't peter out again.

Thanks and good luck to you too. Seems everyone fixes this a
different way. Some instability in XP I'd say...

KJ