John Richard Smith wrote:
OK, so I left the setup on in ctrl-alt f5 to root shell mode for 3 hours, came backto a blank black screen, hit enter and root shell returned.
what colour was 'power on' led when you first returned?
what does your manual say about colour indications?
Now I actually have this monitor's double, exactly the same make model etc on another computer,with M8.1, but with 1280x1024 , with 65thousand(16bits) on a riva vid card,and it is ok. so, I'm going to drop the coulour resolution down from 24 bits to 16 bits for a while and see whether it helps,
lol. i am still waiting for what happens when you drop res.
0230 gmt. are you still up?
peace out.
tc,hago.
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