MacPro, 20" Cinema and Boot Camp

[tomfowler]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone else was having problems getting the Cinema display to sleep in WindowsXP. I have a vanilla installation used for games and even though I have the sleep timer set to 15 minutes, I come back after a few hours and the display is dark, but not off. The backlight is still lit. I have actually turned off the screen saver and just set the power save to attempt to isolate the problem.

Of course, there are no problems in OS X. I think this is some sort of driver issue.

MacPro
Radeon 1900XT
2GB RAM
20" Apple Cinema Display
WindowsXP Professional with SP2
Latest ATI drivers

Anyone else have a solution? Maybe a specific driver for the Cinema display? Currently it just shows up as a "Plug and Play Monitor". This also happens when the machine actuallly goes to sleep. The monitor stays on (black screen) while the Mac sleeps.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[TheSpaz]

Just press the power button on the display to turn it off completely and then when you come back later, just press the power button again and continue working. Stupid workaround but, it should work.

 

[tomfowler]

The power button doesn't work. Apparently on these new displays it has to communicate with the computer in some way. In Mac OS X pushing the button displays the standby, shutdown or restart prompt. It doesn't do anything in WindowsXP.

Thanks for the reply!

 

[TheSpaz]

Sorry. I've used Windows on my Mac Pro (20" ACD) but, I wasn't in Windows long enough for my display to go to sleep. I had no idea there were problems.

 

[seanf]

It doesn't do anything in WindowsXP.

Install WinACD and you can then specify what happens when you press the power button on the monitor.

Sean

 

[synth3tik]

I wasn't able to get my display to go to sleep in windows, stupid windows, thankfully I never use windows long enough to care...

 

[tomfowler]

I give WinACD another try. I had used it once before and it never detected the display. Thanks!