Guest Dave Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 A minor point I have to admit - When I boot up, I get a brief all white screen before things continue on to a completely satisfactory boot, including my usual desktop photo. Any way to replace this heart stopping white out on the boot-up??? Dave
Guest Shenan Stanley Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 Re: White screen on boot Dave wrote: > A minor point I have to admit - > > When I boot up, I get a brief all white screen before things > continue on to a completely satisfactory boot, including my usual > desktop photo. Any way to replace this heart stopping white out on > the boot-up??? On any monitor you connect? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Guest Dave Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: White screen on boot Well, I guess the answer is yes - I only have one monitor. Dave "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message news:OujQNevwHHA.3560@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Dave wrote: >> A minor point I have to admit - >> >> When I boot up, I get a brief all white screen before things >> continue on to a completely satisfactory boot, including my usual >> desktop photo. Any way to replace this heart stopping white out on >> the boot-up??? > > On any monitor you connect? > > -- > Shenan Stanley > MS-MVP > -- > How To Ask Questions The Smart Way > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >
Guest Malke Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: White screen on boot Dave wrote: > Well, I guess the answer is yes - I only have one monitor. > > Dave > > "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:OujQNevwHHA.3560@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> Dave wrote: >>> A minor point I have to admit - >>> >>> When I boot up, I get a brief all white screen before things >>> continue on to a completely satisfactory boot, including my usual >>> desktop photo. Any way to replace this heart stopping white out on >>> the boot-up??? >> On any monitor you connect? Actually, the answer is "I don't know" because you only have one monitor. Take the machine over to a friend's house and connect it to his/her monitor. If the white screen appears on their monitor, you know it is being caused by your graphics card. If the white screen doesn't appear, then you know it is caused by your monitor. If you need more help, post back with the make/model of your computer, your monitor, and what graphics card you have. To tell what graphics card you have, go to the Display applet in Control Panel. Click on the Settings tab and then on the Advanced button. Then look on the adapter tab for the name of your graphics card. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest Dave Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: White screen on boot I believe there was an option on something like this in WIN 98 - just hoping for something simple - I'll try swapping monitors and see what happens In the mean time - FWIW This comp is a Dell 3000 Intel® 82865G Graphics Controller [Display adapter] DELL E773c [Monitor] (15.7"vis, s/n 641804BS00EU, December 2004) They all say "This device is working properly"- but then they always do. Thanks for the suggestions - they are appreciated Dave "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:ucSfg61wHHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Dave wrote: >> Well, I guess the answer is yes - I only have one monitor. >> >> Dave >> >> "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:OujQNevwHHA.3560@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>> Dave wrote: >>>> A minor point I have to admit - >>>> >>>> When I boot up, I get a brief all white screen before things >>>> continue on to a completely satisfactory boot, including my usual >>>> desktop photo. Any way to replace this heart stopping white out on >>>> the boot-up??? >>> On any monitor you connect? > > Actually, the answer is "I don't know" because you only have one monitor. > Take the machine over to a friend's house and connect it to his/her > monitor. If the white screen appears on their monitor, you know it is > being caused by your graphics card. If the white screen doesn't appear, > then you know it is caused by your monitor. > > If you need more help, post back with the make/model of your computer, > your monitor, and what graphics card you have. To tell what graphics card > you have, go to the Display applet in Control Panel. Click on the Settings > tab and then on the Advanced button. Then look on the adapter tab for the > name of your graphics card. > > > Malke > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest Dave Posted July 14, 2007 Posted July 14, 2007 Re: White screen on boot OK, I have made arrangements to connect to another monitor. It's going to be a couple of weeks, tho. In the meantime, can I ask what specifically I'm looking fir, and what would be the logical reason for each. I assume one (hopefully) of two things will happen - either the problem does not occur on the test monitor, which suggests it's my monitor, or if it does occur, it's my graphics card. Am I close? Dave "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:ucSfg61wHHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Dave wrote: >> Well, I guess the answer is yes - I only have one monitor. >> >> Dave >> >> "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:OujQNevwHHA.3560@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>> Dave wrote: >>>> A minor point I have to admit - >>>> >>>> When I boot up, I get a brief all white screen before things >>>> continue on to a completely satisfactory boot, including my usual >>>> desktop photo. Any way to replace this heart stopping white out on >>>> the boot-up??? >>> On any monitor you connect? > > Actually, the answer is "I don't know" because you only have one monitor. > Take the machine over to a friend's house and connect it to his/her > monitor. If the white screen appears on their monitor, you know it is > being caused by your graphics card. If the white screen doesn't appear, > then you know it is caused by your monitor. > > If you need more help, post back with the make/model of your computer, > your monitor, and what graphics card you have. To tell what graphics card > you have, go to the Display applet in Control Panel. Click on the Settings > tab and then on the Advanced button. Then look on the adapter tab for the > name of your graphics card. > > > Malke > -- > Elephant Boy Computers > http://www.elephantboycomputers.com > "Don't Panic!" > MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
Guest Malke Posted July 14, 2007 Posted July 14, 2007 Re: White screen on boot Dave wrote: > OK, I have made arrangements to connect to another monitor. It's going to > be a couple of weeks, tho. In the meantime, can I ask what specifically I'm > looking fir, and what would be the logical reason for each. > > I assume one (hopefully) of two things will happen - either the problem does > not occur on the test monitor, which suggests it's my monitor, or if it does > occur, it's my graphics card. Am I close? Yes, I already told you that. A quick alternative test would be to put in a test video card and see if that makes a difference. Most end users don't have spare video cards lying around though. Your video is on the motherboard so you will need to open up your computer and see if it has an AGP or PCI-e slot and use the appropriate test card. Dell also has diagnostics, usually on a special partition on the hard drive and on the Resouce CD, but I haven't found the video tests to be very useful. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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