Hi. I have a really annoying problem:
My monitor (Samsung syncmaster 171s) seems to turn off (go into green led flashing mode), or go into orange 'waiting' mode under normal operation. It happens only when there is a lot of black (or a dark colour) displayed on the screen, such as when playing a cutscene from a game, or when installing software, but it could happen at any time.
It did occur to me that it would be an OS problem, but it's happening before Windows has started - I can only get into the bios setup screen if I guess when to press the del key and turn the monior off then on again.
I have tried a new cable between the monitor and graphics card. Ive tried unplugging a load of other cards etc feeding off the PSU as I have read about power supply issues on this board.
Ive tried a clean OS install, every possible driver combination, forcing AGP 1x etc.
My last card (a GF2 GTS worked no worries at all on this system.
Any help would be totally appreciated as I am really losing the plot over this one. Thanks...
System:
ABIT KT7-RAID
duron1300@1400
MSI G4ti4200-vtp
512MB pc133
SB LIVE 5.1