Monitor keeps going to sleep unexpectidly, and does not turn on.......

It has happened 2 more times GRRR

aem said:

I feel this is a motherboard issue. Happens to a user at my work place. But first do a system diagnostic test and see if there are any hardware issues.

Exactly, I have the same suspicions, I just hope its not at the moment! I guess I can get a New one for like $75 bucks, but that is $75 I do not have at the moment...

Please don't do that. No matter how much your PC is frozen, you can force it to shut off by holding the power button down for 4-5 seconds. But repeatedly disconnecting the power supply from AC could cause undue wear and carries a slight risk of surges.

Tried that but it will not shut down when I hold the button down. I wouldn't just pull the cord for nothing. would it be safer to hit the switch on my power supply?

Warlockz said:

Cleaning didnt really do much, I may need to put new thermal paste under my heatsink, awhile back I got a better processor from a friend and tried it out, but it didnt work, so I replaced the old one, maybe I screwed it up somehow, but i was very careful. in time i will see, as long as I have the fan on high it seems to do ok. but a fan on high is kinda annoying....Ill try a new heatsink and fan, with new thermal paste when I get the chance to run down to microcenter.

If you put it back without new thermal paste, your CPU is overheating and will evetually toast itself to death. This can happen REAL quick. Take the trip get some new paste and cleaner and get some on the heatsink ASAP. Cleaning all of the old paste first is VERY important.

I guess Its not doing to bad at the moment on Heat because I have my Cool Operator JR Fan blasting on it from the side with the cover off, check out my Speccy screen-shot below, you can also put Speccy in your PortableApps, apps folder! but I am defiantly going to get some new Thermal Paste on Friday! I should put my better Graffix card back in sense I know the GPU wasn't the issue, ill wait until friday...........