Now I am not really looking for suggestions but rather whether or not people ever had this problem or heard of it.
This morning I was browsing the internet when my screen just went black. I restarted and after Windows XP loading process, my monitor went into power save mode. And continued to do so no matter how many times I restarted.
Then I went into safe mode (comes up fine) and after playing around there for a while I decided to uninstall the graphic drivers. After the restart it went into my normal desktop. I downloaded the newest drivers from nvidia, and after the load is complete the computer restarts again. However, still doesn't go into my desktop, my monitor goes back to power save mode (disabled btw in XP). In the end, I had to uninstall the graphics drivers (from safe mode) in order to get to my desktop.
In conclusion I think its a bad video card having problems with the graphics driver (btw was working fine for 2+ years). However, I never really come across this have any of you?
This morning I was browsing the internet when my screen just went black. I restarted and after Windows XP loading process, my monitor went into power save mode. And continued to do so no matter how many times I restarted.
Then I went into safe mode (comes up fine) and after playing around there for a while I decided to uninstall the graphic drivers. After the restart it went into my normal desktop. I downloaded the newest drivers from nvidia, and after the load is complete the computer restarts again. However, still doesn't go into my desktop, my monitor goes back to power save mode (disabled btw in XP). In the end, I had to uninstall the graphics drivers (from safe mode) in order to get to my desktop.
In conclusion I think its a bad video card having problems with the graphics driver (btw was working fine for 2+ years). However, I never really come across this have any of you?