DGutierrez32
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This is a very frustrating problem I'm having, and it's happened to me with two separate games (both Games for Windows titles, thank you Microsoft), Age of Empires III: The War Chiefs and Company of Heroes. I will be playing the game and all of a sudden the monitor will go black, as if the screen saver is about to come up. However, The monitor suddenly goes into its standby mode, acting the same way it does when the computer is turned off. I get no more sound, my mouse and keyboard stop working, not even a normal restart will make the picture come back. The only thing that works is shutting down by holding the power button (or pressing the reset button) and booting up in safe mode. Then, I have to restart again in normal mode and I regain full use of my monitor/keyboard/mouse.
Is there a way I can prevent this? I've only had my computer for a couple months and this problem scares me, I have no idea what it could be. Here are my specs:
AMD Athlon 64 x2 5400
3GB DDR2 RAM
radeon x1950 pro 256mb graphics card
Samsung 941BW monitor
Is there a way I can prevent this? I've only had my computer for a couple months and this problem scares me, I have no idea what it could be. Here are my specs:
AMD Athlon 64 x2 5400
3GB DDR2 RAM
radeon x1950 pro 256mb graphics card
Samsung 941BW monitor