On Wednesday February 19 2003 06:08 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> been randomly powering off with this noise, a moments black screen,
> and then back to whereever I was on desktop, nothing lost ,and it
> does it automatically I'm not having to reset anything, I feel
> it's a monitor / power problem, except that maybe the OS is telling
> it to do this. I don't know, or is it a problem inside the monitor.
> I had assumed it was to do with the OS since when I'm in Windblows
> there doesn't seem to be the same problem, so if it was a monitor
> power problem surely it would be the same
> there, only of course I don't spend as much time there as in
> Mandrake, but I think
> it is true nevertheless. If it was a transfomer problem it would do
> it in windblows.
You might wanna rethink all that. Up till and including Win 9x,
don't know about newer versions but I'm sure it's a similar scenario,
99% of all monitors use either monitor.inf or monitor2.inf. If you
look inside those text files, you'll find that M$ sets up inexpensive
low end monitors, and high end expensive ones, regardless of brand
and model .....all with the same (very conservative) settings. No
matter which monitor brand and model you choose to setup, they all
get lumped together and driven below specs.
There's actually good reason for doing this. Many monitor
manufacturers overstate their product specs, and M$ users don't have
problems to report. Linux OTOH, tries to run monitors at the top end
of the manufacturers' specs and then some have problems. It's the
main reason many (specially those with good monitors) report their
screen 'just looks better' with Linux than when it's in Windoze.
BTW, I believe the sound you mention is the relay on the monitor's
power supply. While you're up and running and you hear this, the
monitor is probly getting overheated or overloaded or both, and the
relay opens to avoid catastophic failure. It could also just be a
bad relay or one going bad, or voltage drops from the power source.
Do you have another monitor to try? If not, try runnin XFdrake and
choose 'generic' or 'plug and play' monitor. It might help to try a
little more relaxed settings. Another thing you might check is to use
a vohm meter to see if you're gettin proper voltage out of the elec.
socket. Failing that, try pluggin the monitor into an UPS.
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