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Marcia

I was hoping someone could help me with this. I am
running Win XP Home with an Nvidia GE FX5200 video card.
I have a flat panel Advueu LCD monitor. I have my power
management set so that the monitor blacks out after 20
minutes of inactivity. Today when I clicked the mouse to
bring the monitor back up it only came back up very
grainy in what looks to be 16 colors. (Sort of reminds
me of windows safe mode.) Thinking it was a driver issue
I tried to roll back the driver with no result. Warm
reboots do not fix the problem. What does seem to fix it
is doing a cold reboot. This is the second time within
the period of less than a month that this has happened,
and a cold reboot fixed it last time also. I started
doing a cold reboot every morning after I had this
problem for the first time, hoping that I wouldn't have
it again, but it reared it's ugly head again today.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing the
problem and what might be done to fix this permanently?
Thanks for your help!
 
I've had that problem before. I had the monitor connected directly into the computer for power if you have that you should put it directly into the power. This keeps it fresh. If it keeps happening you might want to check the settings to see if it has changed. If nothing i've said worked you could always put it on a blank screensaver and put off the power managment settings.

----- Marcia wrote: -----

I was hoping someone could help me with this. I am
running Win XP Home with an Nvidia GE FX5200 video card.
I have a flat panel Advueu LCD monitor. I have my power
management set so that the monitor blacks out after 20
minutes of inactivity. Today when I clicked the mouse to
bring the monitor back up it only came back up very
grainy in what looks to be 16 colors. (Sort of reminds
me of windows safe mode.) Thinking it was a driver issue
I tried to roll back the driver with no result. Warm
reboots do not fix the problem. What does seem to fix it
is doing a cold reboot. This is the second time within
the period of less than a month that this has happened,
and a cold reboot fixed it last time also. I started
doing a cold reboot every morning after I had this
problem for the first time, hoping that I wouldn't have
it again, but it reared it's ugly head again today.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing the
problem and what might be done to fix this permanently?
Thanks for your help!
 
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