Windows 10: Monitor won't wake up

Recently, I began to experience an issue where if the computer goes into sleep mode, I cannot get the monitor to wake up without restarting the whole system. I've tried multiple monitors, but they have the same issue. Also, it does not matter which connection I use, HDMI, VDI or VGA.


My computer is a bit older, purchased in 2009. I upgraded to Windows to when initially prompted to do so, but only began experiencing this issue recently. The computer is an HP Pavilion Elite, and the graphics card is ATI Radeon HD 4350. Running Windows 10 64 bit.


Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated!


Ben

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my computer won`t wake up after goes to sleep

these computer won`t wake up after goes to sleep ?

 

Monitors won't wake!

This also happens to me with my Radeon 7970 but way more sporadically, maybe 1 in 30 times it will refuse to wake up (monitor off, not sleep/hibernation).

Haven't really tried to find a solution but I think it might not exactly be driver related, I've updated drivers several times in the last two years and still got that issue. For all I know it might be a monitor issue as well (maybe the monitor doesn't receive the wake up call for some reason).

Your case seems to be very bad if you can't wake the monitor at all. I assume you've tried to shuffle hardware, didn't you? What were your results? I see you state neither of your monitors waked up, have tried another GPU?

 

Monitors won't wake!

I haven't tried another GPU yet, but that is my next move. My old Radeon 6850 never had these problems.

This started this morning. I took out the GPU yesterday to remove the motherboard, but had no problems last night. I also got a message telling me to connect my VGA power connectors to the 770 this morning after turning the computer off (because the monitors wouldn't wake!). I had moved the GPU a bit before this, as it was a little loose in the PCIe slot. However, I'm not really sure if they were loose or not. It shut down automatically and I reconnected them and it then booted up normally.

I'm trying some software setting changes right now, but I don't know if they will work.