I need some help

[sjacobson]

Hi, I just bought a new computer....It has a P3V4X motherboard, a GeForce 2 GTS by Vision Tek, 384 megs PC-133 Ram in a 256 and a 128 DIMM. I also have the Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI adapter with an 18gig 7.2K RPM drive. I have a DVD drive with software decoding using the vision tek software. I have a 3Com NIC, and a Sound Blaster Live! OEM. I also have a KDS AV-195TF monitor, and i know that there is nothing wrong with it because I can turn it off and on without a problem. Now that I have told you my system, on to my problem.
When i suspend my system, or the computer turns off the monitor using the windows thing, when i try to wake it up, the system freezes, and if it responds, the screen is scrambled, or the screen just shows colored lines and it sparkles a bit, but it doesn't respond and I have to restart the system.
I have the VIA AGP 4.03 drivers, the video drivers, 5.13, but it did this with the 3.53, 5.22, and the 5.30 drivers. I know that the P3V4X has problems with the GART drivers, but I got the good GART drivers (4.03) and the 4 in 1 drivers for the Asus board, i think 4.22, but I dont know what causes this. Please help me! I would appriciate it if you could help me, or point me in the direction of some other places with more specific information on these things and the problem I am haveing. I know I should ask the manufacturer, but they usually try to BS their way out of responsibility, so rather than waste my time talking to them i thought that I would come here for help. If you need anymore information, email me, and anyhelp, post or email it! Thank you

 

[Henry Kuo]

Are you using the windows power management? It doesn't work very well, and mess things up a lot of time... I would say set it to always there, and set the power management in the BIOS. See if that helps.

 

[sjacobson]

yeah, I know i can use the BIOS settings, but i dont want a schedulked time to suspend. I want to be able to put the system into stand by from the start menu --> shut down option. When i do that and then start it back up everything is scrambled, and sometimes the system freezes scrambled, othertimes, it runs a little, but is still completely scrambled and gives me a bunch of blue screen of deaths. On my other computer it works fine. this pisses me off. please help, f you need me to clarify, let me know.

 

[Henry Kuo]

yeah, i know what you talking about. the situation varies with different kind of situation. did you try the older driver, like 5.08 or so? coz' i also had the similar problem, and took me to so long to give up and turn off the windows power management.

 

[sjacobson]

it occurs with many different drivers. Is this a problem with the mobo or the vid card?

 

[Henry Kuo]

Well, I know it is tedious, but one way to test it is disable the pm in windows and try the one in bios. it might be a bit difference, but should be able to test the result.

 

[sjacobson]

I know, but I dont want power management, I want to be able to, whenever I want to, to be able to put the system into standby from the start menu, and to be able to restart it without haveing to hard boot the system. Now whenever I do that, the screen scrambles when it wakes up.

 

[birddog]

I've had the same problem with a P3V4X & a Tyan Trinity 400 board. I'm not sure if its a VIA problem or a windows problem. To get around the problem, I have my computers set to never go into 'suspend' mode. You can set this in your windows display properities (I think its in the screen saver tab).

 

[Invictus]

I have a Tyan Trinity 400 and a GeForce DDR.. I can't do any sort of power saving mode for my monitor, because if I do, it 'wakes up' looking all weird. I heard this is because of my video drivers (5.22), so I just my monitor off when I walk away. Low-tech, but effective 🙂