Monitor goes to sleep on startup vista

Information and links in this thread may no longer be available or relevant. If you have a question create a new topic by clicking here and select the appropriate board. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. New member. Message 1 of 2. HP Recommended. Product: HP v Monitor. Tags 3. Tags: Archived. Message 2 of 2. Check with an alternate video cable HDMI or VGA If the issue persists, try the below steps: The display's resolution used by Windows has probably been set to a resolution that cannot be used by the monitor.

Use the following steps to see if the monitor can display screens from safe mode: 1. Cycle the power on the monitor as follows: 1. Unplug the power cord. Wait 5 seconds. Plug in the power cord. Press the power button on the monitor to turn on the monitor.

Wait 5 seconds and then turn on the computer by pressing the Power button again. For more steps, Click here Let me know how that pans out, I hope you have a good day ahead, And Feel free to ask your queries as this forum has some of the best people in the world available and ready to help.

If the other monitor works, the computer's monitor might be blown. A bad BIOS setting could be preventing the computer from sending out a video signal to the monitor. The easiest way to fix this setting is to adjust it within BIOS, but that requires a working screen. You can clear the BIOS settings by disconnecting the computer from all power sources and removing the battery from the motherboard for about five minutes. After the time is up, return the battery to the motherboard, reconnect the power sources and turn the device on.

CMOS battery removal requires opening the computer case. The monitor may not be getting any signal because the video card is dead. Some computers have multiple video cards: there may be one built-in to the motherboard and one connected to a peripheral slot.

Connect the monitor to the other video card and boot the system: if the computer has only one video card, swap out or add a peripheral video card to the system and turn it on. If the secondary or alternative video card works, the previously used video card is probably broken. I've updated my Nvidia graphic drivers to the latest. I've even disabled hibernate in command prompt.

Seriously, I have above average PC knowledge. But this has me stomped Sometimes I have to go through this cycle up to 9 or 10 times and then it stops. Other days there are no such issues. But I still have to restart just to be safe, and to avoid game stutter another issue which I don't know what it is, since I have latest GPU drivers. But I can live with that. It can't be GPU overheating. I mean, it's on startup and right now, it's cold enough to have this whole room as a cooler for the GPU!

I have thought about possible power supply issues. But how do I test this? The laptop didn't do this the first week that I got it.