12-26-2003, 11:43 PM
Good News. The new card and driver solved pretty much everything, though the trouble shooting process did clean up a lot of corrupted crap on my Window's instalation PC. THe D-Link card did the trick . . . sorta. I then downloaded, much faster, lall of the updates from MS. Hooray.
For about 36 Blissful hours, I finally go to have my broadband connection, which I have paid extra for for these past 2 months, and finally got to play on the West Realm with a Ping less than 200. How nice. No discoes during the game. How nice.
Left the PC on last night when I went to bed, and something has come a cropper, and a big cropper. I am back once again to the *&!!@#$% monitor shuts itself problem. I smell a software problem, though, since I get to various points along the initial boot up routine and then there is a distinctive "click" and Mr Monitor shuts off . . . and, everything else appears to freeze. Can't open CD Rom drive door, for example.
I cant' get past the PCI test in the initial start up without the monitor shutting itself off and the CD RoM light staying illuminated.
I have tried to recover using the windows start up disk. I can get to A:\ prompt, but as soon as I try to get much farther, the monitor turns itself off (I can here the click).
The warm reboot buttton is completelly non functional.
Two blind control alt del reboots. (sans monitor.) does not appear to work. I have unplugged, re plugged, disconnected and reconnected the monitor, the power strip, used the button on the back of the PC to turn it off . . . a variety of the simple trouble shooting steps that usually help when Windows burps.
I can't fixt this *&^%$#@! thing if I cant read the screen.
Two choices.
1. Take advantage of the after christmas sale and get a new hard drive, install it, put Windows onto the new drive and make it C drive, make the old HD D. DOH: Ya can't do that if the monitor keeps turing off! Crap.
2. Find a way to trouble shoot this PC in DoS mode. Trouble is, I tried the old "hit Del to enter setup" on the BIOS screen and about 20 seconds into it, the monitor turned itself off.
This is what happened a few days ago. Getting the other monitor is 99% likely to make this happen again.
How nice: I had two days set aside to do some stuff for Bolty. GUess I'm screwed.
Sorry Bolty, if you read this, I am feeling like road bacon on the information highway again.
For about 36 Blissful hours, I finally go to have my broadband connection, which I have paid extra for for these past 2 months, and finally got to play on the West Realm with a Ping less than 200. How nice. No discoes during the game. How nice.
Left the PC on last night when I went to bed, and something has come a cropper, and a big cropper. I am back once again to the *&!!@#$% monitor shuts itself problem. I smell a software problem, though, since I get to various points along the initial boot up routine and then there is a distinctive "click" and Mr Monitor shuts off . . . and, everything else appears to freeze. Can't open CD Rom drive door, for example.
I cant' get past the PCI test in the initial start up without the monitor shutting itself off and the CD RoM light staying illuminated.
I have tried to recover using the windows start up disk. I can get to A:\ prompt, but as soon as I try to get much farther, the monitor turns itself off (I can here the click).
The warm reboot buttton is completelly non functional.
Two blind control alt del reboots. (sans monitor.) does not appear to work. I have unplugged, re plugged, disconnected and reconnected the monitor, the power strip, used the button on the back of the PC to turn it off . . . a variety of the simple trouble shooting steps that usually help when Windows burps.
I can't fixt this *&^%$#@! thing if I cant read the screen.
Two choices.
1. Take advantage of the after christmas sale and get a new hard drive, install it, put Windows onto the new drive and make it C drive, make the old HD D. DOH: Ya can't do that if the monitor keeps turing off! Crap.
2. Find a way to trouble shoot this PC in DoS mode. Trouble is, I tried the old "hit Del to enter setup" on the BIOS screen and about 20 seconds into it, the monitor turned itself off.
This is what happened a few days ago. Getting the other monitor is 99% likely to make this happen again.
How nice: I had two days set aside to do some stuff for Bolty. GUess I'm screwed.
Sorry Bolty, if you read this, I am feeling like road bacon on the information highway again.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete