Recent content by JohnBoyCr

I found the solution. The Viewsonic monitors have been known to have a problem in which the control circuitry sometimes does not reset correctly on power up. The cure was to shut down my system. Keep all power and video cables connected and then disconnect the power cable to the monitor. Wait...

I am running Debian Wheezy on and older Biostar motherboard that has the Intel 945GC graphics chipset. The monitor is a 19" Viewsonic VA912b . Things have worked well for years but recently I have been seeing an issue with the EDID data not being received at startup. Generally the data is...

In the past, with mobos with legacy bios, it was possible to set all of the device drivers on an existing installation to "standard" and then swap the win xp drive to the new mobo. Assuming that with the new mobo that I can turn off the safe boot mode and set the mobo to boot with legacy bios...

Not sure that this issue is best addressed as an XP problem but thought I would start here. I have Win XP on one hard drive and Debian Linux on a second drive. I have noticed that if I am running Linux and restart the computer, then select Windows XP in the Grub loader, that when XP starts the...