Not sure if this is the correct forum for such matters but here goes.
I've been doing up my old PC for a few weeks now and getting it kind of modernised as possible on such an old board (ASUS A8N, Geforce 9800GT) and it's been fun, getting Windows 7 up and running at a decent speed, upgrading the RAM etc.
Today I was using it and I put the PC to sleep. When I went to return, my monitor does nothing - it usually has an orange light when in sleep/standby mode - but nothing was happening, so I assumed the power lead must have fallen out of the back slightly, so I tried re-seating it. But no, no orange standby light. I then tried switching the PC off and back on, but wasn't very hopeful about this as even when my PC is off, the standby light on the monitor should still be lit. But there is nothing. I have even tried a different power lead and a different power-point, but it's just completely dead, just 20 minutes after it was working fine (as it always has done, with no problems)
I can't afford a new monitor any time soon and this has annoyed me somewhat. Seems putting the PC in sleep has caused something to go wrong (on the monitor side) but what?
I've been doing up my old PC for a few weeks now and getting it kind of modernised as possible on such an old board (ASUS A8N, Geforce 9800GT) and it's been fun, getting Windows 7 up and running at a decent speed, upgrading the RAM etc.
Today I was using it and I put the PC to sleep. When I went to return, my monitor does nothing - it usually has an orange light when in sleep/standby mode - but nothing was happening, so I assumed the power lead must have fallen out of the back slightly, so I tried re-seating it. But no, no orange standby light. I then tried switching the PC off and back on, but wasn't very hopeful about this as even when my PC is off, the standby light on the monitor should still be lit. But there is nothing. I have even tried a different power lead and a different power-point, but it's just completely dead, just 20 minutes after it was working fine (as it always has done, with no problems)
I can't afford a new monitor any time soon and this has annoyed me somewhat. Seems putting the PC in sleep has caused something to go wrong (on the monitor side) but what?