Re: DVI monitor: no video until Windows Starts

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Dante wrote:
Maybe I didn't explain it correctly... But the boot screens all show correctly when a VGA (CRT) monitor is attached. Only through the DVI (LCD) do I not see anything until the Windows start logo shows up. Nothing has been turned off in the BIOS.


Maybe your LCD can not display the frequency your computer uses for the BIOS screens. I have a very old NEC Multisync 4D CRT that has problems with modern motherboards and the BIOS display. Everything works fine afterwards.


"Ted Zieglar" <teddy.z@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:euHuVPouGHA.2224@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Your BIOS may have an option to hide the POST output, and many OEMs place their own graphic there instead, since the messages are displayed too quickly to be of any use, and there are much better means of troubleshooting.

You won't see the boot options unless you press F8 as the computer restarts and before Windows loads.

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

Dante wrote:
I have a LCD monitor with DVI input. The monitor does not display anything until the Starting Windows splash screen comes up. So the BIOS splash, boot options etc are all missing. I guess this is ok until a problem arises. Is this the nature of DVI or is it my DVI graphics card? It is a ATI Radeon VE -- One of the early dual-head graphics cards, AGP 4X.



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