Whats Happening?

[BabyGirl2013]

Ok, my mother has an older P2 with 168 MB Ram, Runs Win 98 on it, and recently purchased a new Phillips Flat Screen Monitor.

Well, here's the issue.

If it goes into sleep mode or she shuts her monitor off and leaves her machine running, when she comes back, the monitor says there is no video input and she has to reboot her whole machine. And because she cannot see the screen, she has to physically turn the machine off, which isn't a good thing, nor does she want to keep having to do that.

Why would this be happening and how can she fix this?? Any help here would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks so much!!!

[ale_x13]

have u checked to make sure that a) your video card is properly seated in its slot and b) your monitor is plugged in and secured tightly?

my philips monitor came with drivers, did yours? if it did, and you havent installed them, try doing that.

[Brangwen]

Hmmm ...

I agree with the first response, i.e., check the vidcard to make certain it is nice and secure (this issue reminds me of a Savage vidcard on a Soyo board that required me to hit reset each first time it was booted ... then it would stay on fine). ... also check the cable connections.

Presumably this problem did not rear its ugly head before the Phillip's monitor install?

(1) What video card is being used in your mom's computer?

(2) What Power Option settings are being used on that computer?

I lean towards the "not properly seated vidcard" as the culprit.

Brangwen

[NDC]

If it goes into sleep mode or she shuts her monitor off and leaves her machine running, when she comes back, the monitor says there is no video input and she has to reboot her whole machine.

I don't think it's because the video card is not seated correctly. If that's the case, your system wouldn't even boot in the first place under most circumstances. You would just get post beep erroros.

I would lean more towards the ACPI option in the BIOS or it could just be Win98 itself. ACPI was first released under Win98 as if I remember correctly and had some major bugs. (Been a long time since I used Win9x)... Disable sleep mode in Power Mangement would be your best bid..