bwoogie Member Posts: 380 From: kansas usa Registered: 03-12-2005 |
Hey every people! I got a little problem with my new computer. Whenever I boot up and my external hard drive is turned on or my ipod is plugged in or if a cd is in the drive, once vista (don't say it ) tries to start (past the progress bar) my monitor loses sync and falls asleep. I usually just turn off my external or unplug my ipod but i think if i wait long enough it will finally give a signal to my monitor and everything will run fine. If I boot up in safe mode it will go with out a problem. Also, as I'm typing this I remembered something else, it worked fine before I installed my video card drivers (Radeon x1050 - cheap card, i know). I tried out omegadrivers and they didn't help. So this is making me think a different driver is conflicting with the video driver? Maybe the USB controller is messing it up? But my DVD drive isn't USB driven. Any ideas? ------------------ |
TwoBrothersSoftware Member Posts: 141 From: Janesville, Wi USA` Registered: 08-05-2006 |
See if anything is trying to share. My guess is USB is sharing an interupt with the video card. |
HanClinto Administrator Posts: 1828 From: Indiana Registered: 10-11-2004 |
Perhaps you're set to an unstable refresh rate for the monitor, and the USB is somehow interfering with that? There's an off chance that your power supply might not have enough watts to drive everything you're throwing at it, and the iPod is pushing it over the edge and your video card is being underpowered (though this is *really* a stretch of a guess). I would turn down the refresh rate and see if it continues to happen. --clint |
bwoogie Member Posts: 380 From: kansas usa Registered: 03-12-2005 |
i have a 430 watt PSU. it should be enough i think. The video card i think only requires a 350w PSU on a fully loaded system if I remember correctly. Also, the external hd is AC powered. I'm also running the monitor at the suggested resolution 1680x1050 at 60hertz. ------------------ |
Realm Master Member Posts: 1971 From: USA Registered: 05-15-2005 |
Ditto. Same 'zact thing happnes to me. dunno why, prbly never will; oh well... ------------------ |
bwoogie Member Posts: 380 From: kansas usa Registered: 03-12-2005 |
Really?! Thats actually good news. I means it's a (probably) common problem and there should be a fix somewhere. ------------------ |
bwoogie Member Posts: 380 From: kansas usa Registered: 03-12-2005 |
hmm. I've been having the problem even with that stuff unplugged. I had in my device manager 2 unknown devices and I deleted them. one was a pci input device and the other is pci simple communications controller, and when windows does start it asks me to install the driver, but it never finds a driver for it. I did however download some drivers from intel, but I'm not sure if they are going to fix anything. ------------------ |
spade89 Member Posts: 561 From: houston,tx Registered: 11-28-2006 |
have you tried turnning off some services/startup programs and/or see if the new drivers added some services you don't need/want. try typing msconfig at the command line(run/command prompt) and see if there is anything you don't want there. and if it all goes well in safe mode then that means there is a specific newer process that is causing this or a setting of an old process so try killing some processes in task manager and see the outcome . ------------------ Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. |