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Press sleep button and switch on/off button to be able to see login screen

Asked Jul 10, 2008, 04:00 PM — 1 Answer
Friend of mine has got problem with his new desktop (XP SP2) , when he starts the PC it boots normally till it reaches where it shows windows XP logo then the screen gets blank (i.e he can not see the login name for users).

What he used to do: is press the sleep button on the keyboard, then after that press the hardware switch on/off button (not the reset button) on the tower of the hard box.

After pressing switch on/off button, he gets directly (pay attention to this) to the login screen where he can see the usernames for all users.

He has to do this procedure every time he would like to boot the desktop

VGA is NiVida with dual outputs, similar to below image

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Jul 10, 2008, 08:30 PM
You've stumped me on why, but I know that under these circumstances, I'd simply stop turning off my computer, I'd use the Sleep or Standby mode all the time since it appears you have to invoke it anyway during a cold boot.

Activate Hibernate or Sleep mode instead of turning off the system so you don't have to jump through those hoops anymore.
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