going into dos mode - monitor turns off

[nehalmistry]

sometimes when i go into dos mode, it goes into some refresh rate or resolution my monitor doesnt support, and my monitor turns off, sometimes it works fine...

this same thing applies to dos prompt full screen... and obviously dos games, and again, it sometimes works....

this is not affected by playing 3d games or not.. since it happens sometimes even if i dont play 3d games.

any clues?

[Jon P. Inghram]

Try reflashing the video cards BIOS. I had mine start acting like that and reflashing fixed it.

[nehalmistry]

oh really? what bios do u have on right now.. what version?

[Jon P. Inghram]

I'm running the newest one on my G400 MAX, 2.1 - 35. I think what the problem is the BIOS is corrupted slightly and switching to DOS modes makes the problem show up. I could be totatly wrong about what's happening, but when I had that problem reflashing the BIOS did seem to fix it.