Monitor shut off when watching videos

craigsnedeker · Nov 24, 2013

Recently (past week) my monitors will shut off when I attempt to play a video of any kind (local, youtube, etc) and won't turn back on, I have to hold the power button until the computer turns off and reboot.

I know of nothing that could have caused this.

Any ideas?

alexoiu · Nov 24, 2013

Did you install newer graphics driver? If not, can you borrow different graphics card and test?

Jim90 · Nov 24, 2013

Could be one of a number of things, though it does look like it's you pc that's at fault. To get started, do a clean re-install of your display driver.

craigsnedeker · Nov 24, 2013

I may have done a graphic update through Nvidia Geforce Experience. I'll do that though, thanks.

alexoiu · Nov 24, 2013

Uninstall the driver, restart and install the one provided by the graphics card manufacturer.

craigsnedeker · Nov 30, 2013

I'll do that.

I've had it shut off randomly (recently) and I was NOT watching videos.

Could too much dust be the cause? I cleaned the graphics card but inside my case is a dust wonderland. (I can't afford to clean it out right now because I'm allergic to dust.)

Update: I uninstalled the driver and restarted and am now downloading the latest driver which came out 3 days ago. I couldn't find the original driver CD that came with my graphics card otherwise I would have used that.

Update 2: I did it, and startup time was increased by like 4 minutes of black screen before my desktop loaded. OK. No problem.

When the desktop loaded I got the following message:

"resources/i18n/locale\sr\LC_MESSAGES\synccient.mp could not be extracted!"

I have no idea what that means. I may try installing an older driver, this driver was a beta driver.

craigsnedeker · Dec 12, 2013

I cleaned the graphic card of dust and reinstalled it. I also removed the driver and downloaded the newest one. This has not fixed the issue, though it's less common now.

I've also gotten the blue screen of death up to 6 times since I made my last post. I simply restart and it's normal. Last night I was in bed and the computer was sleeping and after 20 minutes the blue screen came on.

gokul36 · Dec 12, 2013

Monitor the Graphic card temperature and post her if it Exceeds 80c

Use GPU-Z software

craigsnedeker · Dec 12, 2013

Roger that

gokul36 · Dec 12, 2013

If the Graphic card exceeds 80c.....it freezes

craigsnedeker · Dec 13, 2013

It runs idle around 65c. The fan speed is idle at 45%.

The monitors shut off again at random (edit: actually started watching a video. Still random as I spent 3-4 hours yesterday watching videos). The temp was 65c. I was playing a video game and the temp went up to 88c-89c and the computer fan fine.

gokul36 · Dec 13, 2013

The GPU freezes when the temp reaches above 80c........ i am asking abt GPU FAN not computer fan

craigsnedeker · Dec 13, 2013

I don't see a GPU fan listed here.

gokul36 · Dec 13, 2013

you over clock your GPU?

craigsnedeker · Dec 13, 2013

Nope, dont' know how

gokul36 · Dec 13, 2013

If u have "GPU Tweak" software that came along with ur Graphic card .......

please Reduce the Graphics Clock and Processor Clock speed

craigsnedeker · Dec 13, 2013

I don't believe I got any this software. Any software I can download to do the same thing?

gokul36 · Dec 13, 2013

craigsnedeker :

"MSI After Burner "

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