Dell 8600 Standby

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Do you have the latest bios also.
Did you wait long enough for the screen to come up, I know mine takes a
while sometimes.

Tony P. wrote:
> I have a Dell 8600 and it supposedly uses an NVIDIA GoForce FXGO5200 display
> adapter according to the device manager in WinXP. I found that after going
> into standby, I cant get the system to come out of it. Being that the screen
> is dark, I'm not sure what's going on. The driver date for the display
> adapter is Jan. 8, 2004 so it is relatively recent.
> Right now, the only way to get out of standby is to cycle the power button
> and reboot. Is there something I need to do to correct this?
>

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Yes, I reflashed the BIOS to A10. I waited for the screen to come up but it
never does.


W wrote:
> Do you have the latest bios also.
> Did you wait long enough for the screen to come up, I know mine takes
> a while sometimes.
>
> Tony P. wrote:
>> I have a Dell 8600 and it supposedly uses an NVIDIA GoForce FXGO5200
>> display adapter according to the device manager in WinXP. I found
>> that after going into standby, I cant get the system to come out of
>> it. Being that the screen is dark, I'm not sure what's going on. The
>> driver date for the display adapter is Jan. 8, 2004 so it is
>> relatively recent. Right now, the only way to get out of standby is to
>> cycle the power
>> button and reboot. Is there something I need to do to correct this?

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Thanks,
Tony
For replies, please correct my email address.

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Tony P. wrote:
> Yes, I reflashed the BIOS to A10. I waited for the screen to come up but it
> never does.
>
>
> W wrote:
>
>>Do you have the latest bios also.
>>Did you wait long enough for the screen to come up, I know mine takes
>>a while sometimes.
>>
Did you try the forums at the Dell community web site? I've had success
there when i've had a problem.

>>Tony P. wrote:
>>
>>>I have a Dell 8600 and it supposedly uses an NVIDIA GoForce FXGO5200
>>>display adapter according to the device manager in WinXP. I found
>>>that after going into standby, I cant get the system to come out of
>>>it. Being that the screen is dark, I'm not sure what's going on. The
>>>driver date for the display adapter is Jan. 8, 2004 so it is
>>>relatively recent. Right now, the only way to get out of standby is to
>>>cycle the power
>>>button and reboot. Is there something I need to do to correct this?
>
>