I have a Samsung monitor, model #953BW. I put the computer to sleep last night and this morning the monitor will not display anything. It is the monitor, not the computer, as another monitor works on that computer. The light flashes on the monitor, and I can turn it off and on, but the screen is just black. I tried to do a self-test as described on the Samsung website, but I can't see anything at all. Help? Please?

Looking at your last comment, it looks like you got it working??? Just an heads up, in the future, you might not want to put your laptop into sleep/standy mode while performing an update. If you lose power or have to do a hard shutdown you could corrupt the update and your PC might not boot back up.

No monitor model told
no PC model told
no OS told
also PCs with wrong drivers, the sleep mode fails.
so turn off sleep fully in the control panel + power settings
go to performance mode.;the blow flashing light means I AM sleeping but THERE ARE ONLY 3 WAYS TO END SLEEP ON A DESKTOP(NO NOT FIDDLING A MONITOR)
wiggle the mouse or click it but of USB ports are allowed sleep that fails. hard. so never allow usb to sleep.
then way 2, hammer the space bar ,keyhboard or the ESC key
see PC exit sleep, if USB is allowed to sleep (ports)it too fails
and last the power button pushed in for 10second and released
forces a sick PC, (bad drivers that kill sleep features) this act resets the PC and reboots.
why not just turn off all sleep modes. and just allow the monitor to sleep and or power it off. not used.

also page in your manual states (see resume)
and never allow Hibernate at all it is super buggy or any deeper state.

"Press this button to turn the power on
or off. You can also configure the power
button to operate in Standby/Resume
mode or Hibernate mode. The power
indicator lights when the computer is
turned on."

why not test the PC with newer monitor 2011 newer LED back lighted monitor to be sure your older monitor is not bad as seen here in this flash light test.





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learn to disable all forms of sleep modes, ALL no exceptions.
then see if this works if it does you just learned your drivers are bad.
or test the PC with a newer monitor 2012 is LED for sure)
learn that bad drivers most times make sleep fail
no oS told at all, not even a tiny clue is this XP the versus magnet from H3LL>? or worse upgraded to vista and drivers are all no good for vista. never up grade any os lacking oem support for all drivers.
newer. vast PCs have no upgrade path at and guess what
emachine is infamous for that fact. they stink this way but sure wins the dirt chip cost war, sure.
the fast resume is on the power button to set right]
the fast press is resume from sleep, the but is programable.
if drivers are wrong all this fails hard,

If there is a display switch in the functions on the keyboard (most likely will look like a laptop monitor or a computer monitor on the keyboard). Press the function key and the button associated with that and wait 3 to 4 seconds (you may have to press it multiple times) If you have anything in the vga slot, then it may think a monitor is plugged in and won't display the laptop screen.
If none of the above work, then maybe your computer is having a systematic failure, or the screen connector is loose.

Check ur computer

hi, i have the same problem...any solution?

Dear,

Sea u r Display properties, wether u have installed a right VGA driver. If u have installed right one please install new version of the sa,e.

Cheers
Jaggu

Hello,

It sounds like you have a monitor with a common problem. After a few years some LCD monitors will blow a power supply. The problem is caused by parts called capacitors overheating in the confined space of the monitor. If you are good at electronics repair/soldering you can usually fix the problem. Check out a few pictures on my web site www.ccl-la.com/badcaps.htm You can take the back cover off your monitor and look for the bad parts,replace any that look like the pictures and your monitor should work fine. The capacitors do need to be installed with the correct + and - connections, note the stripe on the old one and insert the new one the same way. If you don't want to try the repair yourself we offer a repair service for $35 plus shipping.

I hope this helps, if so please rate my solution.

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usually there are 2 problems: 1. a vga card overheat when running 3 games the vga card heats up. try using an case fan or adn a vga fan. 2. the game uses a high refresh rate in this case tri to set a default refresh rate from the vga driver. hope this helps

control panel
click power settings
set the monitor to never sleep or dim
same on all windows.
the monitor is totally programmable
why not tell OS?
windows 10?

or google
why does my windows 10 monitor go to sleep
10,000,000 hits
endless.
the defaults under windows, are always wrong,
it's to keep the FEDs happy with there Energy Star bs.
im on laptop now far far from USA
set it all to not use sleep etccetra.

Set the Hrts to 60 in Display Properties in control panel