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{ 2004 05 22 }

Weird Computer Problem – Help?

My monitor keeps going into sleep mode. I’ve got all the power saving features in the PC turned off. Moving the mouse or pushing a key will not bring the monitor back on. However, giving the monitor case a good whack does bring it back on. I’m doing this every 10 or 15 minutes.

Any ideas? The monitor is about 8 years old, so it may just be dying a slow death. I’ve tried googling various combinations of monitor, sleep, standby, hit, whack etc., but have not found anything useful.

Posted by Chris ODonnell on Saturday, May 22, 2004, at 9:25 am. Filed under Geek. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

{ 3 } Comments

  1. stoddart | May 24, 2004 at 11:49 am | Permalink

    Have you tried degauss?

    Just kidding.

  2. Chris | May 24, 2004 at 11:59 am | Permalink

    First I need to install the .exe file from bgates@hotmail.com that I received last night. It’s a security fix from MS specifically for monitor problems :)

  3. Ryan | May 24, 2004 at 2:00 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, sounds it’s just dying. Eight years is a good run for a monitor, though. Has the quality of the display gone downhill, too?