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Frequency out of range....

Nov 6, 2004 2:51AM PST

is the message I get intermitantly on the monitor. XP will reboot itself a number of times before settling in. Clean install of XP Home on a Shuttle AV49N, Chaintech GeForce 5200 up to date drivers. All other drivers up to date. Tried changing monitor same result.

The fact that this is intermitant confounds me, sometimes starting AOL 9.0 will trigger it. Sometimes a cold start after a night off.

Any thoughts?

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XP will reboot itself a number of times before...
Nov 6, 2004 2:54AM PST

" XP will reboot itself a number of times before "...

This points to failing hardware, an overtaxed power supply, overclocking or "other" issues.

You can wait a month and my bet is what is failing intermittently may fail harder to make finding it easier.

Bob

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Re: XP will reboot itself a number of times before...
Nov 6, 2004 3:02AM PST

Overclocking = No

Over taxed PS = possible I would have to recheck the specs since I no longer have the machine with me.

"other issues" = the great unknown


Question:

Any possible software issues related to AOL or others that can create this problem?

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AOL is their world.
Nov 6, 2004 3:28AM PST

Sorry, I know nothing about such. AOL does not share such information.

Bob

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Re: Frequency out of range....
Nov 6, 2004 3:21AM PST

Michael,

May be related to the Screen Refresh rate in Display Properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> Monitor.

Bill
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Re: Frequency out of range....
Nov 6, 2004 3:35AM PST

I adjusted the refresh down to 60 hz, actually it was there to start and running at 1024 X 768. So I am not overtaxing the display but I appreciate the input.

I agree AOL is a PITA and I am trying to steer the owner on to broadband.

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I misunderstood.
Nov 6, 2004 3:55AM PST

I thought it was your machine and was looking at your prior posts. As such, my thoughts on this issue don't apply (except on AOL).

Now about the video card drivers. That's likely OK, but some monitors need a MONITOR.INF file so the video card driver knows what the monitor is capable of.

Bob

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Re: I misunderstood.
Nov 6, 2004 7:00AM PST

I checked on the monitor driver from Proview, they suggest the XP driver.

The computer was built by myself and did not exhibit this behaviour while I had it, this is why I suspect some wayward software. The only software installed afterwards was AOL 9.0, Brother printer/scanner/copier software, and a USB web cam.

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(NT) (NT) So you set the monitor type to the Proview?
Nov 6, 2004 7:18AM PST
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Good point, looks like I need to take another look...
Nov 6, 2004 8:21AM PST

but I did swap out the monitor with a new MAG CRT and got the same problem.

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I had a similar problem once
Nov 6, 2004 9:08AM PST

This was with an ATI built Radeon card. The PC would loop into several restarts occasionally. The problem was that I had installed the latest driver quite recently. Returning to the previous corrected it. Months later, ATI must have fixed this as new drivers began to work properly after 4 or 5 updates exhibited the same problem with the card.