I have problems with my display starting up properly. Normally, when I start up my computer and my display, my display goes straight to the energy save mode. (It doesn't even blink the green light.)

I have discovered a way to make my display start up - I push reset button a few seconds after I have started up my computer and my display. This makes my display light up a greed light instead of yellow and it starts up normally.

 

I have had this problem a long time now. I think it started when I bought a new mother board. (Shuttle AK32V v.3.1). Where can this problem be? My display, my graphic card (Radeon 9100) or my motherboard? Or drivers?

 

Please help!

When does the display go to standby? When the power to the system first comes up, or when the OS has loaded? Which 'reset' button are you pressing to get the display to come up normally?

 

My first thought is that the problem is with the display; it sounds like its not detecting the signal from the video card properly. If there are any menus to make adjustments to power saving settings, that might help. Since you do get a normal display, I'd say the chances are slim that the video card is the culprit. There may be something wrong with the various sync lines, but that would probably manifest itself in some sort of display anomaly during normal operation.

The display goes to standby immediately when it is turned on, as u said "when the power to the system first comes up". When I press reset on my computer case (boot my computer) then display starts up normally.

I had a case like this once about a year ago, If I remember correctly, it ended up being that the PC was setup for UPS (uninterruptible power supply) and that's why the computer immediatly went into standby after boot up.

 

Why this PC had been set to UPS, by the owner, and HOW they did it, was the $64,000 question, but it did cause the PC to go into standby.

 

I simply changed the setting, did a reboot, and all was well.

 

But... on this particular case, I do remember that a couple months later, the machine was brought back to me because the mother board was bad and it would not even boot anymore.

 

Now, I'm not gonna flat out associate the 2 incidents with each other, but it is something you should be prepared for. This board however, was using INTERGRATED graphics, so your case may be different, and it may have just been a coincidence.

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I have a finnish language version of win xp, so the usp settings are in finnish, but as i can translate it says: "ups service is stopped at the moment"

 

So I do not have ups on. (?)

 

On a finnish forum like this one, I had an answer that radeon is sometimes so slow at startup that it is not able to wake up the display. It was recommended that I should download "ati patch" for bios or something like that. I'm not familiar with bios updates etc. so I asked for further advice. Now I'm waiting for an answer. Could you comment these instructions I was given? Have some information about "slow-startup-radeons"?

The BIOS patch would be for the CARDS BIOS, not your motherboard. It would depend on the manufacturer of your card as to whether there is a BIOS update or not.

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