On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:30:39PM -0400, Bob Stia wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 July 2009 00:45:21 Paul Bransford wrote:
> > Bob Stia wrote:
> > > On Monday 20 July 2009 12:03:21 Eben King wrote:
> > >> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Bob Stia wrote:
>
> > The wattage of the power supply doesn't have anything to do with it
> > failing, these things can die after a time. Sure, loading it close to
> > (or overloading) it's capacity can shorten it's life, but that's not
> > what I'm after right now.
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> OK Paul,
>
> I fully understand what you are saying, the power supply, although big
> enough,
> might be going bad.
>
> But you need to explain to me why the power supply could be causing this. The
> monitor(s) are completely self powered. The only input to the monitor is a
> small digital signal through the DVI cable. Don't really understand the
> relationship with the power supply. Learn me !!
I've only intermittently followed this thread, but now that you say
"DVI", my ears prick up. DVI is a real pain in this area. Analog is much
easier and more forgiving. DVI seems to just give up if it doesn't get a
proper signal when it wants. I think it's some sort of sync issue. I
have a Windows machine and Linux machine, both with DVI cards, hooked to
a KVM which allows me to switch between them as needed during the day.
My Linux box never actually blanks the screen (screensaver), but the
Windows box will, after a short timeout, stop sending a signal to the
monitor. And I've had a devil of a time occasionally getting Windows to
wake up and send the monitor a signal.
Again, I haven't followed the thread completely, but if it's been doing
this for years on both analog and digital monitors, I'd suggest a
different video card. I think you can find a cheapo NVidia for $40. I'm
doubtful about it being the power supply or BIOS.
(This advice isn't even worth $0.02, so don't complain! ;-)
Paul
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