HELP! My Monitor Turns Off Now and Then

sweetmisery · 03-21-2008, 09:42 AM

First off, Im using an hp LCD; and my video card is a GeForce(Palit) 8600 GT.

Last month, one day my monitor wont turn on anymore, it keep saying NO SIGNAL then MONITOR IS NOW SLEEPING. The rest of the computer seems to be working. According to the technician, its the video card. Which tested, is indeed the culprit. They have to send it back to replace the video card(waited 4 weeks).

So I have to use the built-in video in my mobo.

Just last week, the replacement video card arrived. Its brand new, and yes, it works. Except that when playing 3D games, every once in a while, the monitor turns off again. I have to restart the computer manually, afterwhich, it will be fine again.

There are days it wont do this, but there are days where it will after playing games for 1-4 hours. At most, the monitor turns off 3 times in a day. I used some computer hardware check... and it cant find any problem. Even tested the video card to its limits.

Any clue what might caused this? Is this another defective video card? Or a software glitch? I did reinstall nVidia's latest drivers.

Any help will be appreciated!

Vizy93 · 03-21-2008, 09:53 AM

Check your wires. Also fiddle around with the control panel monitor settings

sweetmisery · 03-21-2008, 10:03 AM

Yeah I did on both. Eveything seems to be fine. I did a lot of control panel settings too.

I checked nVidia's forums. A lot seem to have similar problems, though theirs crashes. Might be a driver issue.

03-21-2008, 09:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
sweetmisery Bronze Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 31	HELP! My Monitor Turns Off Now and Then First off, Im using an hp LCD; and my video card is a GeForce(Palit) 8600 GT. Last month, one day my monitor wont turn on anymore, it keep saying NO SIGNAL then MONITOR IS NOW SLEEPING. The rest of the computer seems to be working. According to the technician, its the video card. Which tested, is indeed the culprit. They have to send it back to replace the video card(waited 4 weeks). So I have to use the built-in video in my mobo. Just last week, the replacement video card arrived. Its brand new, and yes, it works. Except that when playing 3D games, every once in a while, the monitor turns off again. I have to restart the computer manually, afterwhich, it will be fine again. There are days it wont do this, but there are days where it will after playing games for 1-4 hours. At most, the monitor turns off 3 times in a day. I used some computer hardware check... and it cant find any problem. Even tested the video card to its limits. Any clue what might caused this? Is this another defective video card? Or a software glitch? I did reinstall nVidia's latest drivers. Any help will be appreciated!

03-21-2008, 09:53 AM	#2 (permalink)
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03-21-2008, 10:03 AM	#3 (permalink)
sweetmisery Bronze Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 31	Yeah I did on both. Eveything seems to be fine. I did a lot of control panel settings too. I checked nVidia's forums. A lot seem to have similar problems, though theirs crashes. Might be a driver issue.