When the monitor turn off, it always comes from the graphic driver or graphic card failure. Do reinstall the latest driver from nvidia, carefully selecting "do a clean install", then reboot. See if it improves, else it gotta be the graphic card that is going bad. Oh sometimes it could be the monitor cable or one of the connectors that are damaged. Yes, DVI cable tend to break (inside it, and in no way visible btw). Try another cable if you can.