Monitor going to sleep suddenly

[dsawan 624]

Hi, i am having probs starting up the game as i get the monitor going to sleep message. it hapens with this sim, cfs 3 and il2. i tried a strategy game, ie panzer corp and it did not happen. Also, I changed power settings to never turn off and it still does it. I use windows Vista core 2 duo with an HP w2207 monitor. it just started happenign a week ago but i did not do anything. It also went to sleep when viewing a image or pic and 1 email. I am at a loss. Ut runs fine in safe mode with newtworking but you cant really play games. Any one have a solution. thx.

again, i am using safe mode and can view images and emails fine without monitor going to sleep. just undr regular windows it does this.

[MigBuster 2,884]

Either monitor or graphics card related I would say

 

Can you get updated drivers for the Monitor - if so do so

[dsawan 624]

hi, yeah i did updated drivers but they were from 2011. I may try the nvidia driver update and see. just funny it started all of a sudden.

[dsawan 624]

well installed latest drivers, did anti-virus whihc removed some trojans and now when i run panzer corp from matrix games which was the strategy game mentioned above, the mouse froze and black screen. I played the game last night. I have enough disk space. started sf2 and black screen. I am at a loss.

[dsawan 624]

did another test and played panzer general forever which worked but when i tried to change my resolution from 1650x1050 when you go to display settings, it gave a black screen and mouse arrow froze, but the minitor going to sleep hasn't come back.

[Wrench 9,849]

PSU?

[MigBuster 2,884]

Yes if the PSUs on the way out it will be struggling to put enough power through

[dsawan 624]

did some more tests, i tried seagate harddisk utility checker from their site even though i dont have a seagate internal hd. i ran it and it detected my internal and WD extrernal. I ran shortest pass and it failed on the internal but passed on the external. I now think it is hardware. Can ayone recommend another harddisk utility checker for integrity just to be safe.

 

 

 

--------------- SeaTools for Windows v1.2.0.8 ---------------
6/23/2013 2:58:49 PM
Model: 00AAKS-65YGA
Serial Number: W -D
Firmware Revision: 12.0
Short DST - Started 6/23/2013 2:58:49 PM
Short DST - FAIL 6/23/2013 2:59:00 PM
Sense Key: 0x05 Sense Code: 0x20 Sense Qual: 0x00 FRU: 0x00
Inquiry - Started 6/23/2013 3:03:27 PM
Short Generic - Started 6/23/2013 3:04:10 PM
Short Generic - Pass 6/23/2013 3:07:37 PM
Short DST - Started 6/23/2013 3:08:38 PM
Short DST - FAIL 6/23/2013 3:08:41 PM
Sense Key: 0x05 Sense Code: 0x20 Sense Qual: 0x00 FRU: 0x00

Edited June 25, 2013 by dsawan

[+NeverEnough 78]

Check on the website of your hard drive manufacturer for diagnostic software.  For your external HD, Western Digital should have a diagnostic program available.  If your internal hard drive is a Samsung, Seagate acquired Samsung's hard drive manufacturing business so Seagate has diagnostic software at their website for the Samsung hard drives.  I just went through the diagnostic check on my brother's Samsung hard drive, and it checked out fine on SeaTools.

[UllyB 1,206]

if it would be the PSU the pc would suddenly shut itself or would reset the pc, but not entering in sleep mode. I never seen a PSU to cause that in 20 years of experience. More likley the video drivers are corrupted or a faulty monitor.

[+RAVEN 414]

You check you video card to see if it is has worked loose?

[dsawan 624]

hi, well i installed latest driver s for the card and no go. I disabled the vid card and it stopped the freezing and vertical lines so far. I noticed the card is very hot when touching it. nvidia geforce 8300gs, yeah i know its old.

Edited July 7, 2013 by dsawan