I have a Samsung SyncMaster 15GLi monitor connected to an ATI Rage 128 GL graphics card installed on a SOYO K7VTA motherboard, running Windows 2000. Everything works perfectly, except that: (1) When I power up, the monitor stays dark. Cycling the monitor power button brings things to normal. (2) If the system goes into power-saving mode, the monitor goes into standby mode, and does not restart when the system resumes. Again, cycling the monitor power button brings things back to normal. I've done a number of tests: (1) I swapped monitors with another DPMS-compliant monitor (a Dell Ultrascan); problem goes away. (2) I swapped video cards and tested the Samsung monitor; problem still exists. (3) This is not OS-related; if I boot DOS, the problem will manifest itself after the monitor-off timeout set in the bios. The problem can also be reproduced immediately by hitting the 'sleep' button (power button for less than 4 seconds) on the case (which puts the system in standby mode), and hitting it again (which brings it out of standby). These tests seem to rule out the motherboard, chipset, operating system and the video card. It almost looks like the Samsung monitor responds to commands that make it go 'green', but doesn't respond to commands that start it up again. Anybody has any ideas as to what it could be and how I can solve it ? --ML

I have the same problem with my Samsung 900nf monitor. For some reason it just won't wake up when I come back from standby/sleep mode but unlike you I don't have any problems when I powerup my computer. For a period of time the problem went away but for some weird reason it resurfaced again recently (maybe cuz I had to switch back to a registry backup) and for the life of me I don't know what I did to fix it. One good thing though, this doesn't happen with Win2K. I don't really have a solution for you but maybe to go into your BIOS settings and turn off all the sleep/standby functions and also go into your power settings in Windows and turn off all your hard-disk/monitor powersaver settings as well. Try using different combinations and hopefully that will solve the problem. Good luck!

Just spent a couple of hours trying various weird & wonderful combinations of power options, as you said, but no go. The fact that another monitor (and now I have tried a 2nd other monitor) works fine leads me to believe that something is wrong with the monitor. I will try to bring the monitor to a friend of mine's and see how it behaves there. Thanks for the tip !

I have the same problem with a sony LCD monitor SDM M51 . I run it with ATI all in wonder radeon card. I tried a lot of things finally gave up on standby in windows 2k. I reinstalled my stuff step by step and tried to see what broke the standby. It as working until i installed the creative sound balster SB Live and the new updated ati drivers. BTW i have win98 on the same compouter on another HD and stdby works fine under 98. Weird but i think ati updated drivers + maybe creative driver updates are needed.