Monitor goes into "power saving" mode when playing games, requires hard reboot

[Jakeusson]

Whenever I play any games with steam, my monitor turns off, going into a power saving mode. The only way I've found to turn the monitor back on is by doing a manual reboot. I have my power settings set to "high performance", and have my monitor set to never turn off because of time, with my computer also set to never go to sleep. I've made sure that my resolutions are all set correctly and optimally. It doesn't matter which game I play for this to happen, but it only ever happens when I am playing a game through steam. The display usually does this after 5-15 minutes of playing. Many times it doesn't take this long. My specs:

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[OS Name Microsoft Windows 8.1
Processor AMD FX(tm)-8120 Eight-Core Processor, 3110 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 1604, 10/16/2012
BIOS Mode Legacy
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.95 GB
Available Physical Memory 5.44 GB
Total Virtual Memory 9.20 GB
Available Virtual Memory 6.20 GB
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_05E6&SUBSYS_11753842&REV_A1\4&320ACFF0&0&0010
Adapter Type GeForce GTX 275, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
Adapter RAM 1.75 GB (1,879,048,192 bytes)
Installed Drivers nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version 9.18.13.3165
INF File oem12.inf (Section004 section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries 4294967296
Resolution 1600 x 900 x 59 hertz
Bits/Pixel 32
Memory Address 0xFC000000-0xFCFFFFFF
Memory Address 0xC0000000-0xCFFFFFFF
Memory Address 0xFA000000-0xFD0FFFFF
I/O Port 0x0000E000-0x0000EFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 24
I/O Port 0x000003B0-0x000003BB
I/O Port 0x000003C0-0x000003DF
Memory Address 0xA0000-0xBFFFF
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys (9.18.13.3165, 11.99 MB (12,572,960 bytes), 10/28/2013 9:01 PM)

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_05E6&SUBSYS_11753842&REV_A1\4&51F5D54&0&0058
Adapter Type GeForce GTX 275, NVIDIA compatible
Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
Adapter RAM 1.75 GB (1,879,048,192 bytes)
Installed Drivers nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version 9.18.13.3165
INF File oem12.inf (Section004 section)
Color Planes Not Available
Color Table Entries Not Available
Resolution Not Available
Bits/Pixel Not Available
Memory Address 0xF8000000-0xF8FFFFFF
Memory Address 0xB0000000-0xBFFFFFFF
Memory Address 0xF6000000-0xF90FFFFF
I/O Port 0x0000BF80-0x0000BFFF
IRQ Channel IRQ 32
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys (9.18.13.3165, 11.99 MB (12,572,960 bytes), 10/28/2013 9:01 PM)

I'm not sure what specs are needed so this is some general stuff plus all the display info. Let me know if anything else is needed, thank you.

 

[Raditz_X_RAG3]

It could be a bad cable, or an outdated driver. I don't know whether you have the latest nvidia drivers as I don't currently use a nvidia graphics card but I can tell you that if your drivers are out of date, that could very well be causing the problem.