Is this a sign of a failing video card?

[random betrayal]

This problem has happened a few dozen times now and I am at a loss.

I have my monitors set to go to power save and shut off. I do not shut the computer down as my business phone comes through the network. When I move the mouse to wake up the monitors, they do not wake up. I can do nothing to get them to display again. The computer is still running and working as the phone is active. The only way I have found to fix, is to hit the power button and reboot the computer.

Is this a sign of a video card starting to go bad? It is a little long in the tooth, but I don't play a lot of games on the computer and it is adequate for what I need it to do.

 

[Barfo]

Doesn't sound like it, at least I've never seen a dying video card do that.

 

[lifeblood]

I've had this exact same problem as well and it was not hardware related. Unfortunately I can't remember how I fixed it. It may have a driver problem.

 

[KIAman]

Sounds like a failing Operating System Power Management.

 

[0roo0roo]

yup/drivers/bios etc. not failing hardware.

 

[random betrayal]

So if it is not the card then the operating system? I have a copy of win 7 waiting to be installed. I guess I can speed up the time frame as to when I was going to do this and update the card's driver. I have not updated that in while as I saw no reason to as gaming is not what the computer is for.

 

[Kwisatz Haderach]

What happens if you hit the monitor power button and turn it on and off directly? My LG has problems that it does not like to wake up, and I have to turn it on and off to get it going. That was on Vista, I have not tried using it on Win 7 yet.

 

[Paktu]

I had this problem years ago with my Dell 2001FP monitor and Nvidia 6800GT. About 50% of the time when the monitor would go into power save, I couldn't get it to come out without turning monitor on and off and moving my mouse around a bunch. And sometimes even that wouldn't work and I'd have to reboot. Later I flashed the BIOS on the 6800GT to try and get better overclocks and I inadvertently fixed the problem that way.