I have googled it and tried everything I can think of, every time I reboot Monitor goes to sleep (Not Computer), I tried different cables, different monitor no luck, I have played with power settings till I'm blue in the face plus all the crazy stuff off google, so since ya'll are the smartest ones I can think of, my OS is Win 8.1 updated through Windows Update to 17031, 64 bit, 16 Gigs of ram, latest video drivers, thanks.
Dell XPS 8700 PC 16 gigs Ram Nvidia GeForce GTX 1 GB GDDR5 video card 2 TB Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 16x CD/DVD Burner Windows 8.1 with Update 17031 4th Gen Intel Core i7-4770 Processor (8M Cache 3.9 GHz)
HDMI, DVD-I, Display Port, Ran tests at Dell, everything fine, ran Malwarebytes and anti Virus, no hits, every time Monitor goes to sleep for 3 minutes No outputs on motherboard, PCI-E card
I recommend: 1. restore the computer to an earlier point when it worked well 2. put all the settings under default (bios, windows) etc. .. 3. reinstall the operating system 4. contact the "Dell" and put your question regards
Thanks anyway, but I believe for now I'll keep searching, all that stuff above will take 3 years, contact Dell in Mexico or where ever their at, not a option, they make good stuff but, talk to them nay, my man, nay.
I suspect the monitor. Any way you can try another one? Besides, if it is a bad monitor, you'll be buying one anyway. Just purchase from somewhere that accepts returns in case that isn't the solution.
I don't think its a monitor problem it might be issue with ur graphics driver and are u facing this issue from start or just after upgrading to 17031
My money is still on a problem with the grahics card device driver; Try this. - Disable the automatic dowload of drivers etc. first! ; - Restart your computer, remove complete nVidia driver/software ; - Restart your computer, ...then first check if the driver is completely removed (should be no nVidia driver) and reinstall nVidia driver/software Good luck.
@PointZero - ...you're 100% right 'bout the leaking caps problem (no intention of playing that issue down) but since op stated he tried a dif. monitor with exactly the same results. Anyways, as you said, you missed that bit. - No worries mate, it happens to the best of us.
At the computer shop I've worked at, I've found a problem on some combinations of motherboards, Windows versions, and graphics drivers, the motherboard will seemingly fail to properly "wake up" the video card once the CPU is allowed to enter into a lower power state. Usually a setting in the BIOS or just upgrading the BIOS fixes this. Additionally, I also had at least once instance where it was actually the PSU not supplying enough voltage to the graphics card and/or motherboard after the graphics card regulates its power needs (which they've been able to do for like 10+ years now). A really telling test would be to boot up into Safe Mode and see if it still occurs. If so, try the Windows Recovery Environment too. If it still occurs even there, then it's most definitely a hardware issue.