Hello, first post here and I've got a really irritating issue with my display.
Here's what happened, about two weeks ago I upgraded my BIOS and everything was going smooth, I even had a week of uptime in ubuntu. I dual boot between XP and ubuntu. Today waking up I came to my PC and found it was on but the display showed nothing. This has happened before because for some reason putting the displays to sleep hasn't worked for me. So I rebooted and nothing came up, no image even before BIOS. I unplugged everything possible leaving only my GPU, CPU and display plugged. Booted and nothing, I assumed it was my GPU so I ran out and got a new one, tried it and no image.
After about 5 hours of trying everything and reading forums and chatrooms I tried to boot a live cd which someone suggested I try, I gave a shot and the cd got sort of stuck in that way where you hear the laser going back to the beggining of the cd to start reading again. All along I knew that the machine would boot perfectly because I could hear last.fm start playing once I logged into Ubuntu blind. However with the live cd getting stuck after about 1-2 minutes the image came up but it was all fuzzy and messed up with lines and big squares across the screen. So I rebooted and it worked. I got a clear image and everything was working as it should. Now I know it's not the display since I have 3 and tried each one, GPU it's not cause as I said I bought a new one and tested the old one with this method and got the display to respond. At this moment I can reboot and switch between XP and Ubuntu fine without loosing the image but if I shutdown for more than say 2 min I loose the image and I have to go through this process of getting that cd stuck (which requires several reboots) and waiting 1-2 minutes.
So anyone have any ideas on where the problem could be or possible solution ?
Here's what happened, about two weeks ago I upgraded my BIOS and everything was going smooth, I even had a week of uptime in ubuntu. I dual boot between XP and ubuntu. Today waking up I came to my PC and found it was on but the display showed nothing. This has happened before because for some reason putting the displays to sleep hasn't worked for me. So I rebooted and nothing came up, no image even before BIOS. I unplugged everything possible leaving only my GPU, CPU and display plugged. Booted and nothing, I assumed it was my GPU so I ran out and got a new one, tried it and no image.
After about 5 hours of trying everything and reading forums and chatrooms I tried to boot a live cd which someone suggested I try, I gave a shot and the cd got sort of stuck in that way where you hear the laser going back to the beggining of the cd to start reading again. All along I knew that the machine would boot perfectly because I could hear last.fm start playing once I logged into Ubuntu blind. However with the live cd getting stuck after about 1-2 minutes the image came up but it was all fuzzy and messed up with lines and big squares across the screen. So I rebooted and it worked. I got a clear image and everything was working as it should. Now I know it's not the display since I have 3 and tried each one, GPU it's not cause as I said I bought a new one and tested the old one with this method and got the display to respond. At this moment I can reboot and switch between XP and Ubuntu fine without loosing the image but if I shutdown for more than say 2 min I loose the image and I have to go through this process of getting that cd stuck (which requires several reboots) and waiting 1-2 minutes.
So anyone have any ideas on where the problem could be or possible solution ?
