- Oct 18, 2004
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I got my Acer AL2216W monitor for about a month now. Had the computer with a a dell 1907 for about 2 years now. When i upgraded to the acer i only swapped over the power cable and monitor, so i used the same DVI cable.
Generally i leave the computer on a good 18 hours of the day. I just turn off the monitor and go about my day. I never use sleep, hibernate or standby. But up untill 3-4 days ago, i haven't been able to get it to turn on w/o restarting the entire computer. When i turn on the monitor, it boots up and says no signal. I hit the mouse and keyboard along with anything i can think of. The computer makes noises, like if i wanted to make it play music ( have a media player shortcut on keyboard). The computer on is but the monitor wants to sleep in....
Since then i've installed the acer driver from the site, adjusted my ati Controls and etc. disable all hiberbation, sleep and all standby settings again ( even tho it was never on). nothing new was installed program wise except for a couple of windows updates.
I thought it was related to the cable so i swapped DVI cables. I'm about to look to upgrade ATI driver if they have. Does it sound like its related more to one side?? I look at it being 30% on video 30% on windows and 40% on the monitor.. I plan on upgrading video cards shortly so if i can eliminate windows and the monitor itself i can easily get a video card now and fix my problem
my specs on the computer if the matters is.
x300 Ati video with a 2.8ghz dual core, 3ghz, 500gb maxtor HD. wireless keyboard. mx518 mouse. running on XP PRO.
Generally i leave the computer on a good 18 hours of the day. I just turn off the monitor and go about my day. I never use sleep, hibernate or standby. But up untill 3-4 days ago, i haven't been able to get it to turn on w/o restarting the entire computer. When i turn on the monitor, it boots up and says no signal. I hit the mouse and keyboard along with anything i can think of. The computer makes noises, like if i wanted to make it play music ( have a media player shortcut on keyboard). The computer on is but the monitor wants to sleep in....
Since then i've installed the acer driver from the site, adjusted my ati Controls and etc. disable all hiberbation, sleep and all standby settings again ( even tho it was never on). nothing new was installed program wise except for a couple of windows updates.
I thought it was related to the cable so i swapped DVI cables. I'm about to look to upgrade ATI driver if they have. Does it sound like its related more to one side?? I look at it being 30% on video 30% on windows and 40% on the monitor.. I plan on upgrading video cards shortly so if i can eliminate windows and the monitor itself i can easily get a video card now and fix my problem
my specs on the computer if the matters is.
x300 Ati video with a 2.8ghz dual core, 3ghz, 500gb maxtor HD. wireless keyboard. mx518 mouse. running on XP PRO.