cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:15:08 -0800, iLLz

>Last night, I totally reformatted my machine and did another clean install.
>Everything went well and my control panel was back. I left my PC on all
>night and it locked up for some reason, I think it might be my graphics card
>drivers they are the Nvidia 8800GTX beta ones that Nvidia still has out.

I never like to see "beta" and "drivers" in the same sentence.

>I think when my PC puts my monitor to sleep the faulty graphics drivers
>makes my pc lock up. I rebooted it this morning and my problem is back.

In previous versions of Windows, one can sometimes see that failure
pattern (suspended monitor stays black screen when attempts are made
to clear the suspended state) where the monitor is incorrectly
specified. IOW, the graphics drivers are OK, but the monitor type is
wrong - for example, when you connect an arbitrary monitor to a Win9x
system and then cancel the PnP "new hardware detected" dialog when PnP
tries to set up the detected monitor type.

Sometimes Windows is still working, sometimes it isn't, and sometimes
the processing has stopped entirely (hard crash).

To see whether the PC is still processing, watch the keyboard state
LEDs when you press CapeLock, numLock etc. If "very busy" or hard
locked up, the LEDs will not respond. If they respond, then at least
you know the processor's still handling keyboard interrupts.

Recent PCs will shut down or suspend when the case power button is
pressed; try that as a way out.

>control panel until after i restart the SL Service. I have already activated
>my copy of Vista 3 times trying to rememdy this. Any and all help is welcome.

SL Service?



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