Much the same as the question above. My monitor is set to turn off after a period of time. When this happened before, a simple movement of the mouse turned hardrive and monitor on, but now the hardrive is turned back on, but the monitor does not.
I have manually turn the monitor, and when I do, all I get are a rainbow of colored lines or solid squares.
In order to get my computer up and running, I have to use my reset button. This might not be a problem, but when I am downloading a long program from the web and this happens, I lose all the information. I have taken to setting the time for my monitor to shut down to 3 or 4 huors, just to keep a problem from happening during this kind of download. There must be something which is different, because this was not a problem before.
I can not think of anything I changed.
Help is all I can ask.