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February 2nd, 2005 07:00
[L400] PowerSave scrambles my display
Hi!
I've recently purchased a working battery for my L400, and a problem came to light. Whenever the PowerSave feature incorporated into WinXP turns off the monitor, the system has serious problems in turning it back on.
Whenever I press any button (apart from power which starts hibernation on my setup) i can hear that programs are beeing started (ctrl+alt+del start task manager for instance), but the display stays off.
If I start the hibernation process however, after a while (i assume the while that takes to turn off the dekstop and switch to "Hibernating" screen) the screen turns ON, but it turns into text mode, and instead of text it displays rectangular blocks with all variety of color all over the screen. Complete mess. This happens both when I'm running on battery or am plugged in.
I've got the recent video drivers for WinXP from Dell, and I'd much apreciate not changing them to anything worse (don't recall if the problem persisted on Win2k with bundled drivers) as it's the first time I've menaged to have a completely OpenGL compatible setup!
Any suggestions? It certainly does look like a driver problem, doesn't it ?
I've recently purchased a working battery for my L400, and a problem came to light. Whenever the PowerSave feature incorporated into WinXP turns off the monitor, the system has serious problems in turning it back on.
Whenever I press any button (apart from power which starts hibernation on my setup) i can hear that programs are beeing started (ctrl+alt+del start task manager for instance), but the display stays off.
If I start the hibernation process however, after a while (i assume the while that takes to turn off the dekstop and switch to "Hibernating" screen) the screen turns ON, but it turns into text mode, and instead of text it displays rectangular blocks with all variety of color all over the screen. Complete mess. This happens both when I'm running on battery or am plugged in.
I've got the recent video drivers for WinXP from Dell, and I'd much apreciate not changing them to anything worse (don't recall if the problem persisted on Win2k with bundled drivers) as it's the first time I've menaged to have a completely OpenGL compatible setup!
Any suggestions? It certainly does look like a driver problem, doesn't it ?
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