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video problems on startup causing driver corruption
About three years ago, on my home system I had a problem with a GeForce card
(and still do, just have learned how to live it), and now I'm encountered something similar-looking at work, with a GeForce MX 100/200 (bios version 3.11.01.24.00) (on Windows 2000 as well as XP). What I discovered on the home system is: If, when you power on the PC, you wait too long to power on the monitor (more than just a couple of seconds, really), when the boot sequence gets to where it's about to display the desktop, the monitor just goes dark, and drops into standby. But if that isn't weird enough, you cannot just reboot and fix the problem. All boots after that will behave the same way (especially annoying since it's hard to even do a shutdown). Fixing the problem requires reinstalling the drivers--which is easy enough to do, but a major hassle at first when you don't know what's going on. Now I'm seeing something similar here at work. Different PC, different video card (don't remember the model # on the home system, but can easily check it if someone wants to know) running Windows 2000. Something happened, not quite sure what, but the video would die when it was time for the desktop, and reinstalling drivers fixed it. Apparently something went wrong and caused the drivers to get corrupted, and I couldn't do a normal boot until I reinstalled the drivers. How is information communicated back to the card as to whether the monitor is on? Everyone I talk to seems to agree that this is a really strange problem, but now I've seen it on two different video cards. (Please feel free to e-mail me if I don't check this newsgroup real soon after a posted reply.) |
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