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Sudden Monitor NO SIGNAL during boot Win 7 64 bit
I am sorry to say my experience with Windows 7 64 bit home premium has left me less than impressed, as it seems to be quite buggy.
I use the Gigabyte M68MT-D3 MB (which specifically states that it's Windows 7 ready), with an Athlon II 635 AMD processor and Corsair DDR3 4GB RAM. I am not presently using any fancy GPU's, just the standard on board GeForce 7025 / NForce 630a. My Monitor is an Acer X193w. The NVidia driver I use was downloaded from the NVidia home site, and is the most recent driver to support this graphics chip set. The BIOS is updated, using the legitimate utility that came with the MB CD.
Previously I was experiencing BSOD's every now and then on start up. Restarting in Fail Safe mode, and then restarting normally thereafter, was fixing the problem temporarily, but it recurred quite frequently. Inexplicably, the problem seemed to be fixed by unganging the dual channel memory.
And now, a new problem arises. Upon starting Windows, everything is fine up until the moment the log in screen should appear. At that point, the monitor displays NO SIGNAL, and in the back ground I hear the rest of the boot up continue (the chime sound that plays with the log in screen is heard, but there is no display). The system does boot in Fail Safe mode, but now never in normal.
Just to be sure, I limit my internet experience to gmail and MSDN, and have Avast anti virus installed. Apart from that, the only additional programs I have installed over the Windows installation are MS VC++ 2008 and MS VB 2008 (Express), Mozilla Firefox, DirectX SDK, and Adobe Reader.
I would hazard to say that it is a graphics chip set problem except that A). The screen appears in Fail Safe mode and B). The display works perfectly well on my Linux Debian and Ubuntu installations, through Xserver Xorg and with the Linux NVidia display drivers for the chip set.
Any ideas, please, as to what I can do to permanently fix this problem?
Last edited by Condorito; 11 Apr 2011 at 18:58. Reason: added file