Re: Monitor goes to sleep on bootup of Vista ultimate 32 bit and won't wake up

"Billy Bob Browning" <> wrote in message
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> This started this week. When I attempt to boot up in Vista Ultimate
> x32 the screen lights up fine until after I tell it which operating
> system to load. When I put the line over Vista and press enter a
> message comes on the screen saying the "monitor is going to sleep"
>
> Nothing I do brings it back. I can boot into safe mode and work there
> with no problems.
>
> I can boot into Windows 7 and the monitor works fine.
>
> This is annoying as hell! I have a lot of financial stuff Ineed to do
> on Vista and I cant get to it.
>
> I tried a system restore and it seemed to work, but when the system
> rebooted, the screen when dark again.
> I'm using a GT 240 Geoforce made by Nvidia.
>
> My computer is an HP media center PC with 2.4ghz and dual quad cores.
>
> What gives with this?

It sounds like a video driver issue to me. Did you try uninstalling and
reinstalling the video drivers?

"Billy Bob Browning" <> wrote in message
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>
> Do I have to be using the same resolution on both operating systems?
>
> On Windows 7 Ultimate X64 I use 1280 X 800
>
> On vista Ultimate I was using 1680 X 1050
>
> Would that create a problem?

No using different resolutions will not create a problem. However, at the
risk of overstating the obvious, any resolution used has to be supported by
both the monitor and video card.