is it vista or is it me???

[predatorx2]

Hi Guys, my first post to the forum, had some invaliuable help in the past form these pages, but this time i'm stumped...

Just put a new computer together, it's my first Vista build (since XP is increasingly hard to get), but i've run into a really irritating problem.

When you turn the screen off (but leave the computer on), and go away for a bit, then turn the screen back on back on it goes to standby and won't display any image (no matter how many buttons I press or cables I reattach). If the monitor goes to standby by itself, then it'll come back on with a move of the mouse, it's only if I manually switch it off. Is this some sort of Vista issue, or am i looking ar hardware problem (graphics card or screen is my guess)? I really can't figure this one out. Thanks in advance for any help on this one, it's driving me crazy!!!

Specs are as follows:
Core2Quad Q9450 @ 2.66GHz
4Gb Corsair XMS26400 @ 800MHz
ASUS P5Q Premuim
ATI Radeon X800Pro (hand-me-down from old gaming rig )
WD Raptor (74Gb)
Samsung 740Gb Spinpoint
Sony/NEC DVD-RW
Dell 2408WFP.

 

[SergeC]

I don't have the same hardware, but vista doesn't do anything like that to me.

I'd suspect video drivers.

 

[ZimZum]

Try turning off auto hybernate. Control panel>"classic view" >power options> select "high performance".

 

[taltamir]

its not auto hibernate, its auto sleep mode...

There is sleep to ram, S3 sleep mode. It goes to that automatically, to get out of it you need to press a keyboard button, mouse, or press the power button.
If you cancel it as zimzum said it should solve your problem.

 

[predatorx2]

Thank's for the replys guys.

@ ZimZum and talkamir,

Really don't think this is a sleep or hibernate issue. One of the first thing's I did was disable them. The computer is on when this happens (all fans and lights going), and at least partially responsive (caps lock lights on keyboard etc work).

@ SergeC

I have a horribe feeling you're right. Just checked my monitor with a different computer and it didn't do the same thing so it's internal to the pc at least. Still not convinced this isnt a nasty vista thing though...

The whole thing has just got even more annoying. I gave the rig a mild OC last night (Bus to 400MHz, FBS @ 1600Mhz, Processor at 3.2GHz, Vcore at ~1.24v). So I ran Prime95 and RealTemp all night (11 hours so far) to check stability. This morning I came down and it's done the sceen thing again (despite me not turning the monitor off!). The computer is still on, the keytboard butons are responsive (caps lock light works etc), but I can't get the monitor on to check my results! Noooooooo! It just sits in power save mode on matter what I do to the mouse or keyboard... Only wawy I kinow so far to get out of this is to press the power button and power cycle it, but then I'll loose my stability results!

Any help at this point would be sooo appreciated!

 

[tuteja1986]

mm, this happened to me once :! the GPU was loosely connected to AGP

make sure that GPU is connected properly to motherboard.

 

[Rebel44]

This happened to me several times - solution was to unplug monitor from power for few seconds - it only happened with my 24" monitor - when I tried my spare 19" it didnt have this problem.

 

[chizow]

May be an EDID or source input issue...some LCDs, especially ones with multiple inputs won't resume properly if they don't have a signal or wake event. Like Rebel44 said sometimes cycling the power on the display itself can fix this. Also try manually selecting the input if your LCD has multiple inputs. Finally, if you hit a key to wake the PC first, then turn on the LCD does that help? That's what I have to do on my set-up, otherwise things can get a little bit flaky. I use 2 monitors though, so typically it will just reset everything to single display on my other monitor, then I have to go back and re-enable my 24". Lastly take a look at this solution. Doesn't fit your situation exactly but I came across it some time ago and bookmarked it.