metachronos
05-19-2006, 11:27 AM
I am having a problem where while I'm playing a game the monitor goes into standyby. The LED on the monitor turns amber and the screen goes black. Before you ask, yes, I did turn off standbuy in Windows. I originally thought it was a heat issue, so I bought a fan for the vid card and monitored the temps, they were lowered, but it didn't help. Then I thought it was the PSU, it's a 550 watt but it is an antec. The weird thing is, only the monitor goes into standby, everything else stays on. The computer hardlocks and the audio loops.
Also, when playing a game like FEAR, it will happen at weird times, like when I access the menu or quit the game. Here are my specs:
Athon 64 3700+
2 Gigs Corsair XMS
BFG 6800GT
Audigy 2ZS
Asus A8n Deluxe SLI mobo
WD Raptor 74GB
WD 250 GB
Imagequest 19" LCD.
I noticed that when I changed my video settings in BF2 from maxiumum to medium, I was able to play for an hour without crashing, as opposed to the 10-15 minutes I was getting before. One other interesting thing is; normally when my computer boots it goes like this : Shows a few lines of text about the VGA Bios, shows ASUS splash screen, Windows loading screen, then shows my username and asks for password. A month or two ago, I noticed that the few first boot screens were "fuzzy" or blurry or distorted, it's hard to describe. It would start with the first VGA bios screen, and would continue until it shows my windows username and asks for password, at which point the fuzziness would be gone and it would be back to normal. However, after the incident occured last, night while plaing BF2, whenever the computer is restarted, the monitor stays off for about 30-45 seconds and turns on when it gets to windows username screen. What this means, I have no idea. After last nights crash, I logged back on to find the notice "Windows has recovered from a serious error" and it made a minidump file, if someone could analyze the minidump file for me, that would be fantastic.
I copied this from another forum that I posted it on.
Also, when playing a game like FEAR, it will happen at weird times, like when I access the menu or quit the game. Here are my specs:
Athon 64 3700+
2 Gigs Corsair XMS
BFG 6800GT
Audigy 2ZS
Asus A8n Deluxe SLI mobo
WD Raptor 74GB
WD 250 GB
Imagequest 19" LCD.
I noticed that when I changed my video settings in BF2 from maxiumum to medium, I was able to play for an hour without crashing, as opposed to the 10-15 minutes I was getting before. One other interesting thing is; normally when my computer boots it goes like this : Shows a few lines of text about the VGA Bios, shows ASUS splash screen, Windows loading screen, then shows my username and asks for password. A month or two ago, I noticed that the few first boot screens were "fuzzy" or blurry or distorted, it's hard to describe. It would start with the first VGA bios screen, and would continue until it shows my windows username and asks for password, at which point the fuzziness would be gone and it would be back to normal. However, after the incident occured last, night while plaing BF2, whenever the computer is restarted, the monitor stays off for about 30-45 seconds and turns on when it gets to windows username screen. What this means, I have no idea. After last nights crash, I logged back on to find the notice "Windows has recovered from a serious error" and it made a minidump file, if someone could analyze the minidump file for me, that would be fantastic.
I copied this from another forum that I posted it on.