Monitor shut off when watching videos

craigsnedeker

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Sep 26, 2012
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Recently (past week) my monitors will shut off when I attempt to play a video of any kind (local, youtube, etc) and won't turn back on, I have to hold the power button until the computer turns off and reboot.

I know of nothing that could have caused this.

Any ideas?
 
Solution
If u have "GPU Tweak" software that came along with ur Graphic card .......

please Reduce the Graphics Clock and Processor Clock speed
I'll do that.

I've had it shut off randomly (recently) and I was NOT watching videos.

Could too much dust be the cause? I cleaned the graphics card but inside my case is a dust wonderland. (I can't afford to clean it out right now because I'm allergic to dust.)

Update: I uninstalled the driver and restarted and am now downloading the latest driver which came out 3 days ago. I couldn't find the original driver CD that came with my graphics card otherwise I would have used that.

Update 2: I did it, and startup time was increased by like 4 minutes of black screen before my desktop loaded. OK. No problem.

When the desktop loaded I got the following message:

"resources/i18n/locale\sr\LC_MESSAGES\synccient.mp could not be extracted!"

I have no idea what that means. I may try installing an older driver, this driver was a beta driver.
 
I cleaned the graphic card of dust and reinstalled it. I also removed the driver and downloaded the newest one. This has not fixed the issue, though it's less common now.

I've also gotten the blue screen of death up to 6 times since I made my last post. I simply restart and it's normal. Last night I was in bed and the computer was sleeping and after 20 minutes the blue screen came on.
 
It runs idle around 65c. The fan speed is idle at 45%.

The monitors shut off again at random (edit: actually started watching a video. Still random as I spent 3-4 hours yesterday watching videos). The temp was 65c. I was playing a video game and the temp went up to 88c-89c and the computer fan fine.
 
I don't see a GPU fan listed here.

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