On 2008-01-16, Dragomir Kollaric hit the keyboard and wrote:
>
> This is the situation:
> Ubuntu and a couple of Linux distros installed *only*.
>
> No name, LCD Monitor 1280x1024, (hengin CP190DVI 19")
> horizontal: 31-80
> vertical: 60-75
>
> Graphic Card
> nVidia GeForce 5500
> AGP Slot
> connected via DVI to the PC (AMD Dual Core X2 3800+ "Windsor CPU)

If it helps the motherboard is:
ASrock AM2NF3-VSTA

>
> When I boot up the PC for the first time, the Monitor
> *remains* blank, there is a flickering LED (switching from
> green to yellow) during the boot-process, but no messages
> (Bios version etc.etc) then the "Nvidia" logo appears, after
> that gnome log-in. From that point on it's smooth sailing.
> Now the weird thing is, after a few hours (haven't tried a
> shorter interval yet) when I reboot the PC all the messages
> can be seen I get the grub menu etc.
>
> The Graphic card is fairly new (about two month old) Monitor
> is in use for about a few months....
>
> When I connect it to the D-Sub connector I don't have this problem.

Actually this is incorrect, D-Sub seems to be even worse.
The Monitor flickers on and on, until the logo Nvidia appears.


>
> Keeping the PC running all the time is no option here.
>
> Any hints what might cause this strange behavior?
>
>
> Dragomir Kollaric


BTW thanks for all the hints and tips so far :-)

Dragomir Kollaric
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