Monitor enters power save mode during start up.

Question

The monitor is a Dell 1908 Ultrasharp WFP operating digitally, the computer is a HP Pavilion a6220n, and the operating system is Vista Home Premium. When I first start the system and very quickly turn on the monitor and computer boots normally. If I am a bit slow to turn on the computer the monitor displays a message that the monitor is entering power save, the power light changes to yellow and the computer then enters sleep mode. Once I get the computer out of sleep mode the monitor light turns green and the computer and monitor boot normally. Once the computer and monitor are on and working both work fine.

I have already up updated the bios, Disconnected then reconnected the monitor from the computer, checked connections for damage, reset the monitor to factory settings, and changed the resolution. Any ideas?

tr4 · Answer

Maybe it's the way you are describing it or the way I am interpreting it but it seems to be normal operation. The monitor goes into power save until it gets a video signal from the computer. Do you hibernate or power off the pc?

genemo3 · Answer

Thanks for the reply.  When I am a tad slow in turning the computer on the monitor light turns from green to amber and stays on amber.  The computer sort of hangs up and the easiest way I have found to get it functioning again is to use the keyboard button and put the computer to sleep.  Then I wake it up using the keyboard button again and the monitor light turns green and everything works fine.   And, after the hang up at start up the computer and monitor always function properly.

tr4 · Answer

If you are letting the computer sleep, you do not have to power off the monitor, as it will sleep also. the pc is not instant on so you will always have a delay.  I don't have that model so there may be something special about it so if someone else who has one might chime in

genemo3 · Answer

My problem is solved and I would like to tell you that I figured out a fancy solution but I didn't. What I did was get completely exasperated after trying solutions offered by Dell and HP. None worked. The problem started getting worse and I was having trouble getting the computer to even boot so I tried using the analog connection and everything worked just fine in analog mode. I didn't much want the analog connection so as a last resort I unhooked the analog cable and unhooked every digital connection from the monitor to the computer, including the graphics card. I then reinstalled everything from the graphics card to the monitor and be darned if the computer and monitor have worked perfectly since. There must have been a loose connection somewhere which I didn't find during many earlier troubleshooting attempts. It sure gave me fits for two months!

Hope this helps someone else.

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