On Tuesday 21 July 2009 23:52:31 Eben King wrote:
> 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'm not sure exactly what it is in the bios that does that and I have looked
in there a million times.
> > 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?
I pretty much think that it is, even booting. When I switched monitors today
(moved the DVI cable) I found myself at the login screen.
Bob S
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