John Richard Smith wrote:
[c&p/] > Another interesting developement. > I've been leaning how to use Gentoo boot disc,
> it I had a Thunggg. That is, a power off with a degauss,
thunggg is after, not before power off, correct?
Correct.
> But I can confirm the problem occures in every available resolution from
> the lowest of the low to the best the monitor capable of. It has taken some
> time and patience to confirm that because of the problem's random nature .
ok. now we can start finalizing.
> Can confirm I do have a V/Ohms meter of sorts.
you did, and finalizing may be you putting it to use, if you care to pull monitor case cover.
I'm game.
not knowing just how far you want to go with this, i have saved telling you that your monitor may be where problem lies. tho you may be coming aware of this yourself.
Yes, but I still had bios APM enabled due to it's awkwardness in final shutdown
without it, but I can always diable it temperarily.
But look, this monitor LED thing is bothering me, you see the monitor LED is always green, never observed it changing colour to amber, though only recently been taking note of it, you see the most recent involuntary power off I did have the oportunity to see, and it stayed green. Manual says it ought to go to amber, and even flash or wink at you. That has to be odd. Could bios poweroff and not cause LED to change colour ?
to insure that we have eliminated all before monitor, please verify that you have completely disabled all apm in bios.
if anything is still on, disable it. return to x, any res you want. ;)
insure that you still have symptoms.
believe it or not, thunk and thunggg, how they occur, is a very important part of understanding where problem is.
I have a facility on monitor options to manually degauss , that may be necessary I think it I'm going to remove the casing.
next, does manual mention anything about monitor having any type off a controllable blanking?
It talks about power management , and says it complies with VESA DPMS power saving modes.This is said to save up to 95% of power consumption. The manufacture is supposed to comply with US Gov energy star standards. Otherwise I cannot say it does.
I'm going to turn bios power management off now for a couple of hours,and check up to make absolutely sure that bios is not influencing things here. Will report back in say 1700hrs gmt.
John
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