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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (71832)	8/27/2010 12:30:31 AM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

(last follow up for my Win7 Intel HD fails) Well I think I've figured it out--if I power on my monitor while the PC is partway into booting up, I think I can duplicate the error (Intel HD video fails...and (sometimes) recovers). I'm not going to do it twenty times in a row to be sure of this, but I'm 3/3 in making it fail (forgot to turn on monitor). This is what I originally thought it was--I would much have preferred it was a software conflict. And I'm about 10/10 for not failing--and that's good enough for me. It goes against my nature to reboot the machine over and over to track the problem down, but I will say it might not have anything to do with Intel AMT after all (though it wouldn't surprise me that having more stuff load exacerbates the problem). Anyway, I'm 95% sure that so long as my monitor is on when I power up, nothing goes wrong. Not sure what the statistical certaity of 3/3 and 10/10 gives, but it has to be up there. fwiw, this LCD Teevee monitor wont, as far as I can tell, shut down automatically (and it certainly wont turn on/there is no standby) so being sure to turn on the teevee seems to be the best and only solution. Not a very elegant solution! I don't remember any PC being so sensitive to detecting a monitor before-- it should just load the settings from last time and be done with it.