problem with vidoe card? monitor? system?

Oct 14, 2005
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starting seeing this problem yesterday
everything's going fine and suddenly my monitor goes off, monitor power light turns orange.
I can hear the sound, whatever computer is doing
I reset the computer, it boots fine and then monitor goes off again
I dont know what is causing the problem
I'm using my back up monitor now so if this happens again i'll know it's not monitor
the monitor is bit old so.. it's Dell P1130, probably good 4 years of usage, so i could be that it's dying...
my video card is evga 7900gt KO, 7900gt's is known for problems, dying short after.
recently upgraded to E6400 system that's been causing nothing but problems with ram incompatibility

i hope it's my monitor, so i'll have excuse to go LCD finally