Hi guys,
I'm currently experiencing a weird problem, which has been coming up with my computer about once every 1-2 months for the past year. What happens is this: the computer will go to sleep, and I'll come back, shake the mouse to wake it. The lights in the case will come on and I'll hear the PC start running, as is normal when I wake it from sleep, but for some reason, the monitors won't wake up, and won't detect an input if they're woken manually by turning their power off then back on.
If I shut down the computer (the only way to do that when this happens is by holding in the power button) and restart, the same thing happens. I won't get anything to the monitor - no startup text, windows logo, etc, which makes me think there's something going on with my graphics card. However, I've had this happen at least 5 times, and every time, it just repairs itself if I leave the PC alone for long enough, starting up as normal when I turn it on after a day or so.
I don't understand why this happens, and I understand even less what causes the problem to go away. I'm afraid that if this keeps happening, the PC might not "repair itself" one of these times. Can anyone help me out?
EDIT:
Well, the computer is working again. I was reading around and think my problem may have been that it wasn't POSTing. How did I fix it? Well, I took out a RAM stick, and pow - booted right up as normal. I shut down, put the RAM back in, and... it still worked, booted up fine. I have no idea why this worked, but am happy that it did. I'm going to go ahead and mark this solve so as not to waste anyone's time, however, I'm still irritated that this happens with seemingly no explanation. Anyone who could shed some light on this weird, random timing would be well received!
I'm currently experiencing a weird problem, which has been coming up with my computer about once every 1-2 months for the past year. What happens is this: the computer will go to sleep, and I'll come back, shake the mouse to wake it. The lights in the case will come on and I'll hear the PC start running, as is normal when I wake it from sleep, but for some reason, the monitors won't wake up, and won't detect an input if they're woken manually by turning their power off then back on.
If I shut down the computer (the only way to do that when this happens is by holding in the power button) and restart, the same thing happens. I won't get anything to the monitor - no startup text, windows logo, etc, which makes me think there's something going on with my graphics card. However, I've had this happen at least 5 times, and every time, it just repairs itself if I leave the PC alone for long enough, starting up as normal when I turn it on after a day or so.
I don't understand why this happens, and I understand even less what causes the problem to go away. I'm afraid that if this keeps happening, the PC might not "repair itself" one of these times. Can anyone help me out?
EDIT:
Well, the computer is working again. I was reading around and think my problem may have been that it wasn't POSTing. How did I fix it? Well, I took out a RAM stick, and pow - booted right up as normal. I shut down, put the RAM back in, and... it still worked, booted up fine. I have no idea why this worked, but am happy that it did. I'm going to go ahead and mark this solve so as not to waste anyone's time, however, I'm still irritated that this happens with seemingly no explanation. Anyone who could shed some light on this weird, random timing would be well received!