Help please.

[Guest]

I recently built a new computer and i'm having a problem. When i downloading games from steam it takes me over night to download it so i leave my computer on but monitor off.My problem is that when i wake up in the morning and turn on the monitor, the screen is black but the computer is on. The only way i can fix this is by unplugging my dvi cable from the monitor / graphics card or restarting the pc. Can somebody please help me?

The monitor was working fine in my old computer. that one has windows 7 on it and i think that is the problem

additional information:

windows 8 64 bit

powercolor radeon 7950 pcs+ w/ catalyst 13.1

the graphics card is not over heating because it idles on 33c

[GoodBytes]

Driver issue that doesn't detect your mouse moving or keyboard key presses, to inform the graphic card to send a video feed, so that the monitor wakes up by stand by mode. Unplugging, the DVI and plugging it back, wakes up the graphic card and delivering the video feed.

Uninstall your graphic card drivers, restart your computer and install the latest ones. If that doesn't help, try older drivers, it might be a bug in the latest one concerning your graphic card,

[Guest]

thanks man. i'll try that now. Just a little sad that i will loose my extra 10-15% increase in bf3 :'(

[Guest]

i tried what you said. When the display turns off from the power setting, it wakes the computer but when i actually turn off the monitor, i still have to unplug the dvi cable

[GoodBytes]

Hmm I don't fully understand what you are trying to say I am afraid. Sorry about that. :/

From my understading you are saying that: If you have you computer up and running, and your turn off the monitor, and then turn it back on soon after, it turns on, but stays in stand by, and unplugging and plugging it the DVI cable is the only way to get an image?

By the way, whats your display?

[Guest]

You are correct. please disregard my last post as that was hard to understand. Your understanding is correct. I am using some cheap samsung moniitor ex1920. it is pretty old but i don't think the monitor is the problem because it worked fine is my previous build