This is something that has just started happening. I'm not sure what's causing it. I leave my computer on all the time, and when I wake up my computer from being in standby over night my main monitor stays black. I have to restart the monitor several times before it will start showing my desktop. While I'm in the process of restarting it, it will flash my desktop for a second and go back to being black. This has only started happening for the last 3 days or so.
I have Windows 7 service pack 1. I currently have 2 monitors hooked up to my graphics card. The main one that blacks out when being woken up is connected to the DVI-D port it's running at 1680x1050 60Hz. My second monitor is connected to the DVI-I port with a DVI to VGA adapter, and it's running at 1366x768 60Hz. The second monitor doesn't black out when being woken up like the main one does. I am using AMD's 13.12 drivers because they are the most stable for me at the moment. I can't use the 14.xx drivers.
Why do you think this would start happening out of nowhere? Do you think it's a driver issue? It could be a windows issue. It might be my graphics card, or my monitor could be dying. Once I get the monitor to actually display something it works perfectly fine. I would test the DVI cable, but I don't have another one. Do you think the DVI-D port on my 270x is going bad?