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My monitor Wont Wake Up


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Baldyloxxx

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I have just installed a new G card. Now when i turn my pc on, the monitor doesnt wake up! I have to turn the monitor off, turn the pc on then turn the monitor on. Even then that sometimes doesnt work.

Please help!
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spaceagecow

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Reseat the ram and graphics card also check power connections.
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If you are still having problems after following Spaceagecow's advice:

This seems like an obvious driver issue. You may have an incorrect graphics card driver installed, no graphics card driver or it has not installed correctly.

Go to Start > right-click My computer > manage > select > device manager > scroll down to Dispay Adapters and expand this heading.

You should now see the card you installed. If not, you have no display driver installed or you also might see a yellow exclamation mark (meaning you definately have either an incorrect driver installed or an incorrectly installed driver.
If your video card name is being displayed, right-click it and select Uninstall.
When complete, reboot and then insert the disk that came with the card and re-install the display driver and reboot

Step 1. If this is a second-hand card with no disk, let me know exactly which card you have and what operating system you are using and I will give you a link to the correct driver to download.

Step 2. If you installed the driver and it's still playing up, follow step 1.

Edited by Akabilk, 30 November 2011 - 01:21 PM.

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Yes, maybe the problem is with your drivers. Just goto "Control Panel" uninstallation option. You will see your driver here. Just uninstall it and re-install again after restarting. Again, You haven't told what your G card is. You should install the latest version because if your G card is a little older it may not support your win.
But also remember, after uninstalling, if your graphics works properly, you don't need to install drivers because Win 7 can automatically catch and recognize drivers.
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card and everything is firmly set etc and i uninstalled and re installed Nvidia driver 285.62. Still no luck!

My card is an Asus GTX460 overclocked. Got it secondhand and it came with no cd. I run windows 7 64bit.

Thanks for the help guys.
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Not one to overclock personally so cant comment but you might want to reset your bios to defalts use the drivers provided by asus http://www.official-...CFYE3pAoddAhQmQ
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card and everything is firmly set etc and i uninstalled and re installed Nvidia driver 285.62. Still no luck!

My card is an Asus GTX460 overclocked. Got it secondhand and it came with no cd. I run windows 7 64bit.

Thanks for the help guys.


I also have an ASUS GTX400 series card, so give this a try -

Please go here: http://support.asus....lk4mHtGKaKSDDOJ
and download Version 267.85 from ASUS Support for a GTX400 series card in a W7 64bit setup. There is no mention of the Nvidia Geforce 400 series driver 285.62. for some (ASUS) reason.

Edit to add info:
As there is also a card bios update available and offered in that link, I would try the above possible fix before attempting to update a card bios. One mistake and goodbye card! :(

Edited by Akabilk, 01 December 2011 - 02:03 PM.

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card and everything is firmly set etc and i uninstalled and re installed Nvidia driver 285.62. Still no luck!

My card is an Asus GTX460 overclocked. Got it secondhand and it came with no cd. I run windows 7 64bit.

Thanks for the help guys.


I also have an ASUS GTX400 series card, so give this a try -

Please go here: http://support.asus....lk4mHtGKaKSDDOJ
and download Version 267.85 from ASUS Support for a GTX400 series card in a W7 64bit setup. There is no mention of the Nvidia Geforce 400 series driver 285.62. for some (ASUS) reason.

Edit to add info:
As there is also a card bios update available and offered in that link, I would try the above possible fix before attempting to update a card bios. One mistake and goodbye card! :(


Just to inform me more than anything please, but is there a difference between the asus driver update and the invidia update? Cause going by the numbers am i not going backwards?
im ignorant to these things so would appreciate an explination.
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I think it's worth a shot to install what ASUS recommends, not Nvidia.
Your choice of course.

Still, it may or may not fix the problem, but it's a process of elimination and the driver is one of the best places to start.
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Just to let you know, it sorted its self out. Starts fine now.
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