Monitor goes into sleep mode in "Dos"

[jonisaksson]

Hi

I have a problem with my Dell monitor (Dell 2005 FPW).
It is connected via a DVI port, my problem is that when ever a program needs to reboot into DOS to do anything(Like PartionMagic or defrag program etc) it goes into power saving mode.
Which mean I can never see the options etc so I usually end up randomly pressing keys (yeah I know not very bright thing to do)

Is this a feature of DVI or is there a setting somewhere so that the DVI port still sends a signal to the monitor even outside of windows?

many thanks for any advice

Cheers
Jon

 

[Nodsu]

What kind of a video adapter do you have? If it's an integrated one, then there may be an option in the BIOS to set the default port for video output.

 

[jonisaksson]

Hi Nodsu,
thanks for the reply, unfortunately (or fortunately depending how you look at it) have I got a discreet graphics card.
The card is an nvidia 7950 gx2.
I havent been able to find anything in the Nvidia control panel controlling this

 

[jonisaksson]

Anyone got any ideas?