On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Bob Stia wrote:
> On Monday 20 July 2009 23:59:49 Eben King wrote:
>
>> Do you have any other cards (even unused/unneeded ones) that have a
>> full-screen setup program you can get into blindly? Maybe mail the guys at
>> Samsung and see if there's a way to turn off sleep mode semi-permanently or
>> a way to deactivate it with creative button-presses? Can you do all your
>> BIOS work after a short jaunt in Linux? (If you reboot the machine before
>> it remounts root r/w you're in no danger of hosing something.)
>
> Unfortunately I do not have any old, or new cards lying around, and I have
> never heard of a way to blindly do a setup without booting an OS first.
What I meant is, if you find a way to make your BIOS send the magic signal
to your monitor, and you memorize the way there so you can do it with your
eyes closed, then you could power up your machine & monitor, go into the
BIOS, and navigate to that page which activates your monitor.
> I guess I'll have to try Samsung and see what they say.
>
> To reiterate though. In my very first post I stated that I had bought a
> new 24" widescreen monitor and what prompted this thread was that I could
> not get it to Post no matted how many times I turned it on and off.
How do you know it's not the case that the computer's POSTing, you just
can't see it?
-- -eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81And we never failed to fail / It was the easiest thing to do -- CSN
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