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I currently have an APOLLO multimedia keyboard (it's 10 years old or so), a gaming mouse I got from eBay for less than $5 (but does an excellent job!) and a pair of Nokia Purity by Monster

This is awesome! Such a compact projector with such great capabilities !

I'm currently using an APOLLO multimedia keyboard. Yes, APOLLO. This thing is 15 years old. But hey, it gets the job done! And I can't afford a mechanical keyboards... And I am not going to spend my money on another dome cap keyboard!

I want the Kova White because it's freaking awesome!

It's a Samsung S24C200. I ordered a DVI-D dual link cable from eBay. Was 9 USD. Should do the trick - hope it does. Otherwise, I may have to go to that expensive electronics shop where such a cable is 15 USD or so -.-

From what I remember, the cable is either DVI-I Single Link, either DVI-D Single Link. While the ports on the GPU are DVI-I Dual Link. Could that be the problem? The ports on the old GPU were also DVI-I Dual Link, and the cable Single Link, and the old monitor worked fine... I'll have to get a DVI-I Dual Link cable, I suppose?

No... Of course I did not carry the computer with me as well. Lol. A monitor should work anywhere, right? So far I tried with a Gigabyte 6870 (my old GPU), this new Sapphire R9 380, my parents' PC (NVIDIA GeForce GT 7300)... and the output has been the same : blacks are blue, whites are yellow, you can see "buzzing" lines all over the place. At the store, it worked fine. WITH MY CABLE. Is this monitor REALLY THAT NEEDY and it only likes SOME graphics cards?! As far as I know, there's no such thing :\ ----- Oh and as for the initial issue of this thread... display not coming on after several time in idle... I think this is due to the GPU - it enters some deep sleep or God knows what, this Crimson driver most likely has rough edges, so... Yeah, so I can CTRL+ALT+DEL to regain image, as well. All it needs is a little push from the back... the GPU, I mean.

Thank you! I'll get back at this when I have more time & look at the cables & ports. But all I know right now is this : the cable is DVI-D (Single Link), and it worked just fine on my old monitor... it also worked just fine at the shop. Why was it working fine in one place, but not in another? The monitor is the same, the cable is the same... I also tried both ends of the cable - they are both the same, anyway. Could that be the culprit...?

What...?! 5 different DVI configs?! Jesus! Okay, I'm open to suggestions. If you can help on this matter, please chime in in the other thread. I'd be grateful

Well, I dunno. The monitor, with my DVI cable (which worked fine with my old monitor, but not at all with the new one) worked fine at the store when I went there to show them my problem. But... the monitor doesn't work with two DVI cables at my house, on both my computers, and now with this new GPU, so it's not the system... nor the cables... I dunno... So far, DVI to VGA seems fine. How am I killing it? I honestly don't see any difference. Also, when I went from VGA to DVI (didn't realise my old monitor has a DVI input as well) on the old monitor, I didn't see any difference. Been using it for 4~5 years with VGA, then some more years with DVI... no notable difference...

My mouse (no-name, $4 from eBay - better than anything, imo ) and keyboard (10 year old Apollo, won't change for anything) are just fine. No wake settings have been changed... Just the GPU... Also, I have 3 DVI cables. Please read the story I linked to in the OP, it's really interesting...

So... I just got a new GPU (Sapphire R9 380 Nitro OC, 4GB DDR5, all that goodness), and this just started happening... I leave my PC on, I turn the monitor off and I leave the house. Several hours later, when I return... I fire up the monitor and I have no image. I must use my phone to remote in via TeamViewer first. I have no idea why, but I suspect it is the new graphics card / software (Crimson driver)? I previously had a Gigabyte AMD Radeon 6870, with the old Catalyst Control Center (14.7, since 15.2 or whatever the newer one was HATED Xonotic - some old "triple A" title game I play - and would crash every time I minimized the game). Also, the video signal comes out of the GPU via a DVI output, then a DVI to VGA adapter, then goes through a VGA cable to my monitor... because of this. But with the old GPU, this adapter setup worked fine - could it be that the new GPU doesn't like the adapter so it idles or something...? I don't think so, but oh well, mysterious are transistors' ways? Here's a video I made to better explain the whole situation. I filmed it with my girlfriend's OnePlus One, and I believe it was set on slow motion 60fps from before... also, I realised it's out of focus only some 15 seconds in.

Well, UT3 no longer dips below 60 (Vsync on), while it *used to* (old GPU) dip below that at times. Xonotic... is just poorly optimized. It's version 0.8.1, was 0.7 last year. Also, it's a driver thing, I'm sure of it. Otherwise I don't see how I'm getting about the same frame rate with this (much better than the 6870) R9 380... Good to know that at least my CPU is good to go was fearing I might have to upgrade to a 8xxx CPU in less than 4 years

I only play Unreal Tournament 3 (which has all the settings maxxed out and V-sync on, but it used to dip a bit below 60 with the old GPU - no more now) and Xonotic... which must be poorly optimized, since I'm still dipping below 60 fps (same story as with the 6870... maybe I need to kiss antialiasing good bye for this game).

Now, one more question. Is my CPU (AMD FX-6300) a bottleneck here? :\