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Re: Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
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Re: Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
That is an excellent insight! I will give it a go and let you know what happens.
Arneson, my apologies for not giving a quicker response; I've needed to take a break from this time-consuming problem and should have said so. All of your quick-responses have been _much_ appreciated!Leave a comment:
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Re: Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
Yup, I have installed that driver; it is actually the most current update and was posted on their site the day after I ordered the monitor.
I have managed to find a list of the drivers in Device Manager by going Administrative route; am still unable to delete any of them while viewing them there in Device Manager.... any suggestions?Leave a comment:
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Re: Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
Good One!
So, lets see....
Arneson, any ideas on how I can access specific drivers list to follow up on your previous suggestion? Device Manager isn't displaying them...
Any and all response much appreciated!Leave a comment:
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Re: Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
My thought is, if the video card doesn't display any problems at any other time, but for this flashing to black screen with the Acer AL1906 LCD, it likely isn't a problem with the video card itself.
So it does appear I'm back to square one with the same problem.
Question: How to transfer the video card's affections from the old CRT to the new LCD?Leave a comment:
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Re: Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
Brand new LCD; continuously flashes to black every 2-7 seconds w/out any particular pattern (i.e. it may flash every 2-4 seconds a few times and then the next flash to black will be 6 seconds, and so on, randomly).
Hooking the LCD up to another (limited functionality -- basically like a handheld) setup, it has no problems whatsoever and works like a charm.
Looking at the black monitor: There is not even the faintest hint of windows visability, even being right up on top of it.Leave a comment:
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Re: Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
In Safe Mode, the Monitor does not appear in the list; in regular mode, it does.
After running dxdiag w/the LCD, everything checked out okay (tests and all).
Flash to black screen problem still exists.....
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Re: Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
Once in the Device Manager I noticed the video card shows up in the list but the monitor doesn't; interesting because it has showed up before.
I don't seem to have the option of deleting drivers left or right clicking; can uninstall or roll back to a previous version.... any suggestions?
dxdiag forthcoming....Leave a comment:
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Re: Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
The good news: The problem does not exist in Safe Mode.
The bad news: The problem still exists.
Refresh rate: The card will support 75Mz, which Acer reccomends; setting it to 60Mz doesn't appear to effect any change to the problem. Resolution: NP.
DVI: No DVI on this Monitor, only one input for attachment to a video card.
TV: Automatically is dissabled if no TV is connected.
Arneson, I'm not sure what you are referring to when you say "Try, monitor disconnected,...Leave a comment:
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Re: Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
Arneson, please clarify on the DB15 pins; by these are you referring to the monitor and video card contector pins?
Hagis, where did Arneson say the refresh rate is too high? I'm having a little trouble w/your suggestions below... please define "tft"? No Digital Video on this card that I'm aware of. I have already tried deinstalling and reinstalling drivers, even going to just the Windows drivers, as you suggest; this does not effect the problem in any way.
I am about to try and boot up...Leave a comment:
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Re: Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
Please excuse my ignorance here....
If you mean the connector pins on both monitor and video card, I have checked them and they appear to be in order. Nothing seems out of place.
When I replug in the old monitor, everything is fine and normal...Leave a comment:
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Re: Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
Yes, SP2 of XP. I failed to mention earlier that as part of my attempted solution to the problem, I did check the power saving scheme in the control panel -- deactivated this feature; it did not effect the problem at all.
Unfortunately, the problem is still occurring.Leave a comment:
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Re: Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
Yes, the monitor works fine w/another machine and the video card works fine w/the old Philips 109S monitor.
As for the refresh rate, I've tried multiple rates (including 60Hz) and this does not effect the flash-to-blackscreen problem at all.
Any other ideas?Leave a comment:
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Acer AL1906 LCD Flatscreen w/ATI 128 All-In-Wonder
I recently decided to upgrade to an LCD Flatscreen monitor from a Philips 109S --- no monitor problems whatsoever previously. In fact, system running fine (mb is an ASUS P2B-D and is still going strong w/caps looking good).
Problem: The Acer 1906 (w/a 8 MS refresh rate) flashes to black screen every 2 - 7/8 seconds. Power light on the monitor is consistant. Only the screen itself flashes to black; no other problem apparent than this (i.e. no fluttering, distortion, etc. present).
My attempted solution: Check and properly adjust the monitor settings according to the... -
Re: Trying to Determine if Bad Caps is Really The Problem
We have lift-off!!!! Yeahhh!!!!
Willawake, you did it! I took out that extra par port card (don't know why I kept missing it), reformatted the HD, did a clean install of XP Pro and it worked like a charm!!!!!
_THANK YOU_!!!!!! 
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Re: Trying to Determine if Bad Caps is Really The Problem
sure my board has par port; it is just an extra! (a vintage leftover, one might say...)
Yup, definately am considering another board... which one, don't know... suggestions are always welcome
Is that Guiness I see in that glass?
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Re: Trying to Determine if Bad Caps is Really The Problem
Hey, Thanks for posting that file; I'll get to it and give it a try and then I'll let you know the results.
Good to know on the caps issue; Thanks for telling me that!
As for removing all pc cards, yup, I've done that; all except for an extra "easy parallel" card that I seem to keep forgetting is in there... still no progress w/a skeletal system; I think I may go ahead and remove that par card and try again w/install...
HardwareAnalysis.com has a long list of folks...Leave a comment:
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Re: Trying to Determine if Bad Caps is Really The Problem
I'm using a Presidian Personal Internet Communicator to get online; it is basically just a "box" and not a computer; a closed system using Windows CE for an OS that does not allow download, upload, or updating of any software by the user, just the ability to get online and do research/email. It has no drives and all udating is done through the ISP.
On one hand it is great; on another, frustrating to not be able to download/upload anything!
Hey, I hope I'm not wearing everybody out w/my...Leave a comment:
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Re: Trying to Determine if Bad Caps is Really The Problem
Okay I'm not sure what happened; I just wrote a lengthy update and it didn't get posted.
Update: 1. The caps on the PSU appear fine; all aren't perfectly vertical--is this normal?
2. One cap on the MB appears to be _very_ slightly (as in barely) leaning. I'm wondering if this is the source of the problem? None of the caps on the board are bulging or leaking.
3. A complete reinstall of OS (XP Pro) proved completely uneventful--still exact same problem.
4. I can't...Leave a comment:
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Re: Trying to Determine if Bad Caps is Really The Problem
Update: 1. I've (successfully, or so M$ tells me) reinstalled OS (XP Pro); still having exact same problem w/freezing on splash screen and no further activity.
2. Pulled the lid off the PSU; no bulging or leaking caps. I did notice, however, the caps are not perfectly vertical but since I have another of the same exact PSU same make, model and date (H2O damage so I can't use it to test this system), I pulled the lid on that too to compare, and the caps are all laying in the same direction, so I'm assuming this...Leave a comment:
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