Monitor/Vid Adapter problems

[Chris1122]

I've built about 20 computers or more in the last 5 years and I believe the monitor may be bugged but I figured I would bounce this off of you all and I might be wrong.
Specs:

Asus P4C800-deluxe updated bios
3.2 P4
ATI Radion 9800XP updated drivers
ViewSonic Professional Series P95f+ 19 inch CRT

First off the 9800 is showing up twice in the device manager. This is the only 9800 XT I have dealt with so it may be normal but it shows up under display adapters in device manager like this.

Raidon XT 9800
Raidon XT 9800 - Secondary

The drivers are loaded for both and there isn't any problems showing up in device manager. Hmmmm.

The monitor is what is giving me the problems though.

The screen would go blank after a few hours even when power saving isn't on but the light beside the power button stayed bright and the only way to get the monitor back up was to hit the power button on the monitor. It would always comes back on right away.
Also it would do this sometimes when the computer was in use by somebody.

I disabled the secondary 9800 XT in device manager and would run the monitor in power savings mode at about 30 mins and that solved it. I could just move the mouse and the monitor would come out of it and it never went blank while in use.

Since then I have updated the catalyst drivers and when I come out of power savings mode I have to adjust the monitors V-position, H postion and other just a bit. WTF! So I stoped using the power savings mode for the monitor, thus the monitor goes blank after a few hours and the only way to bring it back is to use the power button. It also has gone out while in use a few times in the last few weeks. That sucks.

Anybody have any thoughts on this?

 

[rbV5]

First off the 9800 is showing up twice in the device manager. This is the only 9800 XT I have dealt with so it may be normal but it shows up under display adapters in device manager like this.

Perfectly normal. 9800XT is a dual head card...Primary+ Secondary= 2 entries in device manager.


Have you tried using the DVI port with the CRT adapter to see if you have the same issue?

 

[Chris1122]

So its not the display adapter causing probelems.

The driver update must be just a coincidence!?!

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: Chris1122
So its not the display adapter causing probelems.

The driver update must be just a coincidence!?!

Its not the 2 entries causing the problem...no. I'm not sure if the driver update has anything to do with it..perhaps, I guess. It sounds like some kind of power management issue.

Maybe try the monitor on another PC? or another monitor on your PC?

 

[MisterChief]

9800XT huh...*tisk* *tisk*

This sounds like a power issue. What PSU are you using? Have you tried a different monitor?

 

[nineball9]

As rbV5 noted, the 2 entries are normal for a dual card. I have a 9800 pro - also a dual monitor card - and it always displayed 2 entries back to the original drivers as shipped, circa July 2003. I doubt any recent driver updates had any effect in the device's configuration in Hardware Manager. Perhaps you never noticed the secondary entry until now.

Sounds like you may have a problem with your monitor, though trying it on another system would help to identify if this is the case.

 

[Chris1122]

Thanks for the replies.

Everybody seem to hit the next step to this right on the nose but I didn't want to do it because it involves 3 flights of steps and two 19 inc CRTs

but rbV5 hit on something that was in the back of my mind with the power management. When has PM ever been right. I would think Asus would have that down by now!?!

Its not the 2 entries causing the problem...no. I'm not sure if the driver update has anything to do with it..perhaps, I guess. It sounds like some kind of power management issue.

Oh yea, ANTEC SL400 400W RTL Is my power supply MisterChief. That never accured to me. What makes you think it could be a power supply problem?