[pchelpers] Re: Monitor stuck in power saver?



        Kehrin, Monochrome monitors had a two row plug, VGA or SVGA Color
monitors have a three row plug, do not try using some kind of adapter for
the signal cable. 
        Normally there should be only one of those three row sockets on
the machine either in a card or on the motherboard. 
        Once it is plugged into the right socket Windows 98 SE should be
able to figure out how to bring it up with the right driver. 

        My computer is a HP and if I click on shut down then it powers
the computer off completely. The only way to get it back up is to press
the power on switch on the computer itself.  This is the normal way. 
Some systems have a standby mode which may or may not work too well.
Usually it is controlled by a button on the keyboard using my HP as an
example. 
        
        Cy

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:17:29 -0400 "Kehrin" <kehrin@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> Hi Everyone.  I am having a problem with the monitor on my 
> daughter's
> computer.  We moved, and I'm trying to set up the computer again.  
> The
> OS is Windows 98 SE, it's a desktop, and the monitor is an NEC
> MultiSync P750.
> 
> I can tell by the sounds I hear that the CPU is doing what it 
> should.
> I can turn it on, and hear that it boots up ok.  I can shut it down
> fine, too, using the windows, arrow, and enter keys.  I have no
> picture at all, because the monitor goes into its powered-off state 
> a
> couple of seconds after I turn it on.  I've tried turning it on 
> first,
> and turning it on after the boot up was complete.  Makes no
> difference.  Is there a key code you can use to recover from that
> powered-off state?  Without a monitor, I don't know how to even 
> begin
> to stop it from doing that.
> 
> Also, could there be something mechanical wrong, such as a bad
> connection in the cord or either of the plugs or sockets?  On the
> chance that I'd hooked it into the wrong places, I tried all 
> possible
> combinations, but it always acts just the same.  I turn it on, I get 
> a
> green light, and immediately it clicks off and the light goes 
> orange.
> 
> I should mention that this is one of those older monitors that has
> detachable cords with a plug on each end.  The cord that connects
> monitor to CPU has fifteen pin connectors, one in a three row and 
> the
> other in a two row configuration.  On the back of the monitor there
> are two different sockets the cord could plug into, one a two row 
> and
> the other a three row configuration.  The three row socket is 
> labeled
> Signal Input, the two row is labeled D-Sub Connectors.
> 
> On the CPU there are three sockets the monitor could plug into.  
> There
> is no color coding.  This is a Micron circa 1998.  The only three 
> row
> socket appears to be on the video card, but that would mean I ought 
> to
> have an adaptor on the two row end of the monitor's cord, and I can't
> remember having had an adaptor there before.  There are two of the 
> two
> row sockets.  One is on the SoundBlaster sound card, and the other
> plugs into the motherboard.  It's been six month since this was 
> taken
> apart, but I think the monitor plugs into the motherboard socket.  
> As
> I said, when it didn't work the way I thought it should be hooked 
> up,
> I tried all possible combinations, but nothing worked.
> 
> I feel like a newbie with brain fog.  Please help.  :)
> 
> Kehrin
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

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