Monitor fails to power on from S3 state Vista64bitSP1

September 8, 2009

This problem has persisted through radical hardware differences--the only

thing unchanged has been vista 64bit. Different monitors, power supplies,

motherboards, RAM, processors-Intel and AMD, VGA cards-ATI and nVidia,

etc... Whatever Vista is supposed to suspend to RAM to wake up a monitor is

not getting done right. Vista wakes from S3, you just can't see it. You can

hit cntl-alt-del and arrow down two or three, hit enter and it makes the

log-off sound. After that I have to hit the reset button on the tower

because I'm not real keyboard savvy to get the cursor down to the power

button in the corner of the welcome screen. Just sold a nice system and had

to fumble around about how she couldn't use the sleep function because it

wouldn't wake up her dell LCD monitor. We tried. It wouldn't. I got my own

Vista 64bit to sleep and wake up ok by changing advanced power settings,

multimedia, some setting there but don't remember the details, and if that

was the only thing I changed. If someone recalls this fix for this problem

in its entirety could you please post it so I can copy and paste it to

something three dimensional.

Thanx

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