I have rebuilt or tuned up 4 systems now, each with a different video card ( two were Dells, a Workstation 340 and an 8100 Inspiron Notebook ).
Each of the workstations went along fine during the W2K Pro install, OFfice 2000, service packs, other software, IE6, yada yada. However each one also barfed when brought to the EE's desk where it will be used. In each case the Monitor at the EE desk either powered off when W2K went to true GUI mode ( after initial CMOS and W2K Splash screen ) or it would come up 'garbled' . The garbling reminds me of video cards with bad memory. This garbling also can occur after the system shuts down the monitor if power saving after 20 min is enabled.
The Notebook today confirmed, to me, the problem lies with the Viewsonic. Notebook in docking station, using both notebook screen and Viewsonic via docking station. Then it went to GUI mode after innitial install of W2K ( formatted HD first ) the Viewsonic went dead ( LED goes yellow instead of green, indicating lack of signal it can use ) and the notebook looked like this :
Note the size of the display. This is after W2K installed, before any service packs.
Has anybody run into something like this with any monitor lately? I've seen Viewsonic do odd things ( in the early 90's they shipped a converter FREE to users who called to complain: one pin caused feedback problems for Windows PCs.. ) but nothing like this.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Paul
