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monitor will not wake up
For the last month, my monitor will go into a low power state from which it does not recover. I often need to completely power down both the monitor and the computer for the monitor to come back to "life". This initially occurred when the computer went to sleep, so I disabled all the sleep/monitor off options and it still would occur. The computer would be running normally, but the monitor would be off with a faint orange light on the power button. Before this began, it would have a stronger orange signal when "asleep" and a green signal when operating normally.
I have fixed the problem by running a screen saver, but it's the middle of summer and the computer creates a pretty hot environment. Unfortunately, the problem also occurs when I manually put the computer to sleep, shut off the monitor, and occasionally when I power down the whole system. I recently ran a number of windows upgrades, including upgrading my video card driver, so I went back to the old driver, and it still occurs. Unfortunately, there were about 50 windows updates and I don't see a restore point listed for before they were installed. I assume I can uninstall each one manually, but that will be a real pain. Any thoughts on to what kind of update could do this besides a video card update?