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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I am in the process of switching from the old rig to the new rig. While |
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> doing the install I was using a Gateway EV700 monitor and it worked fine. I |
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> unhooked the cables from my old rig and moved in the new rig. The new |
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> monitor is a Gateway EV910. When I boot with the Gateway EV910 hooked up, |
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> it doesn't even come out of power saver mode or show the BIOS screen that |
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> pops up when I first turn the puter on. It does work with the one I used to |
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> install with, EV700. So, I know the card didn't mess up in the switch. |
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> Since it doesn't even work with the BIOS screen, this is not a OS issue. Is |
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> there some setting I have to change to be able to change monitors or am I |
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> just going nuts here? What is it about hooking up a different monitor that |
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> makes it not work? Both monitors support the same resolutions and I have |
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> switched these before with my old rig and not a single problem. |
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> What am I missing? Some new feature that the video card remembers what |
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> monitor it is supposed to hook up to? |
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> Thoughts? Fixes would be nice. |
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> Dale |
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Like old Bill C. said "I feel your pain." |
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I've got a newish Samsung 22" monitor I'm using on this computer. It |
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works great. However recently I tried reinstalling Gentoo on an older |
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Mac Mini. This same monitor, when attached to the Mac, would boot |
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Gentoo from the CD, showing text on the screen for about 10 seconds, |
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and then seems to go into some sort of power savings mode where the |
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text becomes so dim that you almost can't read it. I found in that |
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case I had to turn the lights off to see what the Gentoo install disk |
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was telling me to do. I figured out what I had to type to get yaboot |
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to boot, but it was a mess. |
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I never found a solution to this and just gave up as the Mac was too |
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slow. You might look for BIOS level power management stuff and see if |
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it's turning off or dimming the output? |
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Good luck. I feel your pain... |
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- Mark |
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