System shows no display after extended periods of no use.

[Toksin]

I have an AMD Athlon 1.4GHz, EPoX - 8K7A MoBo, and a TNT2 32Mb Video card. (My 64Mb Radeon hasn't arrived yet ) For some reason, when I leave my system on overnight, and turn the monitor switch on in the morning, I get absolutely no display; no screen saver, no nothing. I reboot and everything is fine. Once or twice I leave this to chance, as my DELL used to do it occasionally. But it is happening too frequently.

Current setup: The screen saver comes on after 10 minutes, and the monitor shuts off after an hour. (The thing is, I shut the monitor off manually with a switch, so the auto shut off shouldn't be a factor any way) The box is running Windows 98 SE, and the hard drive is set to never shut down. It seems to only be extended periods of time (i.e. longer than 3 hours). Any ideas? Need anymore specific information? Let me know.

Thanks

P.S. Yes, there is power to the monitor, I'm not that foolish!

 

[DesignDawg]

Uhhh....Post any new threads lately?

Ricky
DesignDawg

 

[Toksin]

Yes, why do you ask?

 

[ledzepp98]

silly question...

do you move the mouse or hit a key on the keyboard, or do you just hit the reset button? if i manually shut off my monitor it does the same thing when i turn it back on in the morning but when i move my mouse it wakes up...

 

[Toksin]

Yes, I move the mouse and hit keys on the keyboard. No dice.

P.S. Sorry about the extra threads, something wrong with my internet client.

 

[gopunk]

does it do the same thing happen when you go to start, shutdown, then standby? i think your system is going into standby mode. mine did the same thing and i also can't get the display back up. i just disabled standby to solve it.

 

[dullard]

This is an extremely common problem with powersave (on most computers I've seen). Basically the video card shuts down when the computer goes into powersave, and it never wakes up properly. Everything else works, just not the video card output. Sorry I don't know the solution. But if anyone did, I know about 50 computers that could use it (my family, friends, and I). My solution is to shut the computer off if you don't need it within 1 hour. Plus this eliminates the Windows 95/98 slow-down problems.

 

[NelsonMuntz]

Yeah, I think you need to disable stanby in the power management features of Windows 98 (look in the control panel).

 

[NJArtist]

I believe that you need to hold down either the space bar or the home key for 4-5 seconds to bring your computer out of standby...try it next time and see, might be only ASUS mobos...not sure.

 

[gopunk]

really? i was not aware of that... i'll try it out when i get home

 

[Toksin]

Thanks for the quick responses everyone... It seems as if NelsonMuntz is right. Its the power management features in the control panel. I disabled that before I left for work today, left the computer on, and it came right back up when I got home (9 hours later).

Thanks Nelson!