1901FP Display Issue

I have a Dell Dimension 8300 (winxp, 1GB ram, 80B HDD, ATI Radeon 9800
video card) with the 1901 FP display. Recently, I've been getting a
message that it cannot display the current mode (it states DVI) when I
switch to a full screen DOS command window. The display is set up with
DVI input.

This happens occasionally and I have to either reboot or
cntrl-alt-delete back to the windows GUI (if I can). It typically will
then work correctly.

Has anyone run into this issue?

Thanks,
Harvey

Can't imagine what the problem is. I don't use full screen DOS, but it
shouldn't really matter.

What happens when you use VGA instead of DVI?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harvey Gratt [mailto:hgratt@verizon.net]
> Posted At: Monday, June 25, 2007 11:33 AM
> Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
> Conversation: 1901FP Display Issue
> Subject: 1901FP Display Issue
>
> I have a Dell Dimension 8300 (winxp, 1GB ram, 80B HDD, ATI Radeon 9800
> video card) with the 1901 FP display. Recently, I've been getting a
> message that it cannot display the current mode (it states DVI) when I
> switch to a full screen DOS command window. The display is set up with
> DVI input.
>
> This happens occasionally and I have to either reboot or
> cntrl-alt-delete back to the windows GUI (if I can). It typically will
> then work correctly.
>
> Has anyone run into this issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Harvey

Problem is intermittent, so at this point I'm not going to switch to VGA.

FWIW, the issue happened more frequently when I switched back and forth
(from DOS to win GUI) when I was in the DOS editor - fairly repeatable.
So I thought that was the cause.

But, today it happened by just opening up the command window ( however,
we did have a power outage and I had to do a controlled shutdown while
on UPS power - this was the first try after rebooting when the power
came up). So far, the issue as not reoccurred since this morning.

Thanks,
Harvey


Tom Scales wrote:
> Can't imagine what the problem is. I don't use full screen DOS, but it
> shouldn't really matter.
>
> What happens when you use VGA instead of DVI?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Harvey Gratt [mailto:hgratt@verizon.net]
>> Posted At: Monday, June 25, 2007 11:33 AM
>> Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
>> Conversation: 1901FP Display Issue
>> Subject: 1901FP Display Issue
>>
>> I have a Dell Dimension 8300 (winxp, 1GB ram, 80B HDD, ATI Radeon 9800
>> video card) with the 1901 FP display. Recently, I've been getting a
>> message that it cannot display the current mode (it states DVI) when I
>> switch to a full screen DOS command window. The display is set up with
>> DVI input.
>>
>> This happens occasionally and I have to either reboot or
>> cntrl-alt-delete back to the windows GUI (if I can). It typically will
>> then work correctly.
>>
>> Has anyone run into this issue?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Harvey
>

Hi!

> I have a Dell Dimension 8300
> Recently, I've been getting a message that it cannot display the current
mode
> (it states DVI) when I switch to a full screen DOS command window. The
display
> is set up with DVI input.

> Has anyone run into this issue?

Yes, I ran into a similar issue with my Dimension 8300 and it only got worse
over time. Now--my hardware setup was a bit different (nVidia video card and
a Viewsonic A90f+ monitor attached to the analog VGA connector), but the
failure mode was almost exactly like what you described with your setup. The
monitor would frequently report that it was receiving invalid sync (and it
showed goofy scan rates--far beyond what the monitor could handle--in the
OSD error display) and the only way to get any display back was to go back
to the Windows GUI.

I pulled out my video card when the problem got so bad I couldn't even use
the command line in full screen mode. To my dismay I found almost every
capacitor on the card had bulged or exploded. Some had failed so badly that
they dumped clumps of electrolyte on the SCSI board underneath. Fortunately,
no damage was done to anything but the video board. I replaced it with an
ATI card and everything has been fine since.

William

William R. Walsh wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> I have a Dell Dimension 8300
>> Recently, I've been getting a message that it cannot display the current
> mode
>> (it states DVI) when I switch to a full screen DOS command window. The
> display
>> is set up with DVI input.
>
>> Has anyone run into this issue?
>
> Yes, I ran into a similar issue with my Dimension 8300 and it only got worse
> over time. Now--my hardware setup was a bit different (nVidia video card and
> a Viewsonic A90f+ monitor attached to the analog VGA connector), but the
> failure mode was almost exactly like what you described with your setup. The
> monitor would frequently report that it was receiving invalid sync (and it
> showed goofy scan rates--far beyond what the monitor could handle--in the
> OSD error display) and the only way to get any display back was to go back
> to the Windows GUI.
>
> I pulled out my video card when the problem got so bad I couldn't even use
> the command line in full screen mode. To my dismay I found almost every
> capacitor on the card had bulged or exploded. Some had failed so badly that
> they dumped clumps of electrolyte on the SCSI board underneath. Fortunately,
> no damage was done to anything but the video board. I replaced it with an
> ATI card and everything has been fine since.
>
> William
>
>


Thanks for the info. This, at least, gives me a place to look.

Harvey