Seris and her incompetant computer

The only way I could see the monitor being an issue is if it's drawing it's power through the computer instead of through a separate power cable to the wall, but I don't think computers have done that for about 15 years.

You could try installing Windows Reference Drivers for LCD Monitors instead of the specific ones that the monitor has. It shouldn't hurt the monitor and if there is any sort of weird resolution conflicts going on I'd think it would resolve them.

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I just don't trust sleep mode for towers. If you are using a laptop then fine but towers it's a pretty dumb idea. They aren't designed with that in mind and are usually very sluggish when waking up.

I wouldn't necessarily agree with that. I use hibernate every night for my computer (and often at least one point during the day) and I don't have any problems with my system. Hibernate is a great tool to reduce power consumption (I think it drops your computer down to around around three watts instead of the multihundred it could be consuming otherwise) and as long as you aren't actually running something like a virus scan or updating windows when you put the computer to sleep there shouldn't be any issues.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Merv Burger

You're using "hibernate" and "sleep" interchangeably.

"Hibernate" and "sleep" are two different things. Sleep mode is where the system is being stored to RAM and being left in a low-power state to preserve the RAM's data. From personal experience, this is where I've typically had the most problems.

Hibernation is where the data is placed on the hard drive and the computer is completely turned off. I've usually had no problems with this mode, laptops or desktops.

Don't know why one would cause more problems than the other, it just does.

Whoops, yeah, didn't realize I was. I didn't think anyone actually uses sleep mode since the times I've tried it my HDs stayed on as did all of my fans, so it felt pretty pointless.

Seris, go into device manager (inside of the System Properties window), find the device manager button, look for the Monitors thing, click Update Drivers, Choose Drivers Myself, and find the reference one.

I'm not sure if you're using Vista or not, so I'm feeling too lazy to look up exactly the set of instructions on how to do it on XP.

How ya doing, buddy?