Monitor Going to Sleep Message on Screen

syaoran7li · September 30, 2019

Hey everyone,

so umm a friend of mine has this monitor "HP Compaq R201B". Whenever he uses his PC the display goes back and show the message "Monitor Going to Sleep" . Its completely random when it shows that message. He thought it might be his PC so he brought his PC to me. I checked it and it was working fine on my monitor i ran for over hmm 5 or 6 hours never got the message. and also he mentioned that he noticed most of the time it shows that message after a 30 mins of use.. so i ran aida for 30 mins and it ran fine.. Also to Note i used the Power Cable that came with his monitor but used my VGA cable instead of the one he brought.. not sure if vga cable has anything to do with this. i also tried swapping to onboard graphics on his PC.. it still worked fine.. He mentioned that he didnt know where his GPUs ports are so he was using Onboard VGA port. So ya i tried both and bot worked for me.. so asked him to try on his GPU port and he still has the same issue after a while it shows that message. Oh and ya he did say after that message appears display goes black and he cant bring it back from sleep anyway he has to restart it to make it work again.

What could be the problem?

Thank You

EDIT 1: I dont exactly know his pc spec. i just know he has a GT 610 GPU. If you need other specification i can check and update here.

SpookyCitrus · September 30, 2019

Power cable isn't going to affect or alleviate this particular issue, using his power cable on your monitor is only a good test if the monitor doesn't turn on at all and you want to see if the power cable is dead. This issue is more than likely his monitor itself, or his VGA cable. Try his monitor and VGA cable on your computer and see if it still happens if it does then try his monitor with your VGA cable and see if it's the cable that is the issue. If with his monitor and your VGA cable it still does it then you know it's the monitor.

Usually this issue is a sign of a dying monitor.

syaoran7li · September 30, 2019

6 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Power cable isn't going to affect or aleviate this particular issue, using his power cable on your monitor is only a good test if the monitor doesn't turn on at all and you want to see if the power cable is dead. This issue is more than likely his monitor itself, or his VGA cable. Try his monitor and VGA cable on your computer and see if it still happens if it does then try his monitor with your VGA cable and see if it's the cable that is the issue. If with his monitor and your VGA cable it still does it then you know it's the monitor.

Usually this issue is a sign of a dying monitor.

Thanks for the reply.

Ok will try that and Update here.. he lives a bit far away so might take days to update but will do.. Thanks again