baser5nature
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Here are the specs...
Gigabyte GA5AA Socket 7
AMD K6-2 500MHz
Geforce 4 MX 440
320MB DIMM PC133
Generic PS
Windows XP Pro.
Here is the problem...
Turn on the system, after bios and boot screens, monitor goes into standby, and will not come out... I'm using the monitor on a different system now and it's been on for 1 hour working fine... (i'll leave it longer to be sure). Sometimes it will make it into windows and be 1/2 to 1 hour before the monitor goes into standby in the midst of playing a game or working on something else.
As you may have guessed by the disproportionate quality of the video card, I already know it's not the video card causing the problem. So now since i'm using the monitor fine on another system, and a brand new video card didn't change anything, the problem lies with the motherboard, or perhaps the Power Supply? Could it be the Power Supply?
I'm leaning towards crappy mobo though, since DMA 7 would not let higher than 8 bit sound out of my AWE64 sound card, and regardless of brand of mouse, type of connection (PS/2, or serial), or drivers for mouse, I always have quirky problems, like no physical scroll wheel (or middle button) on the mouse, but internet explorer will start scrolling as if i pressed the middle mouse button, or mouse will act as if there are no active windows and i can't click on anything... help me hopefully someone else has experienced similar problems and can tell me what to do, this computer is very close to being smashed due to frustration and stupid problems...
Gigabyte GA5AA Socket 7
AMD K6-2 500MHz
Geforce 4 MX 440
320MB DIMM PC133
Generic PS
Windows XP Pro.
Here is the problem...
Turn on the system, after bios and boot screens, monitor goes into standby, and will not come out... I'm using the monitor on a different system now and it's been on for 1 hour working fine... (i'll leave it longer to be sure). Sometimes it will make it into windows and be 1/2 to 1 hour before the monitor goes into standby in the midst of playing a game or working on something else.
As you may have guessed by the disproportionate quality of the video card, I already know it's not the video card causing the problem. So now since i'm using the monitor fine on another system, and a brand new video card didn't change anything, the problem lies with the motherboard, or perhaps the Power Supply? Could it be the Power Supply?
I'm leaning towards crappy mobo though, since DMA 7 would not let higher than 8 bit sound out of my AWE64 sound card, and regardless of brand of mouse, type of connection (PS/2, or serial), or drivers for mouse, I always have quirky problems, like no physical scroll wheel (or middle button) on the mouse, but internet explorer will start scrolling as if i pressed the middle mouse button, or mouse will act as if there are no active windows and i can't click on anything... help me hopefully someone else has experienced similar problems and can tell me what to do, this computer is very close to being smashed due to frustration and stupid problems...