Monitor goes into Power Save mode whenever I start up my computer.

[Protection]

So it's just a normal day, gonna go restart my computer... As soon as windows finishes "loading" the screen goes black and says "entering power save mode." I'm currently running in safe mode with networking and is there any chance I can get this fixed today?... Without opening the shitbox itself?

I'm running on windows vista and a dell studio desktop (not the shitty slim-midget version either.)

[Chipset]

do a virus scan in safemode and system restore if you can. post results.

[editline]21st December 2010[/editline]

The fact that it gets to the windows loading screen is a good indication that it's probably not a hardware problem but probably a driver issue/broken windows install/virus etc.

[Protection]

[QUOTE=chipset;26860694]do a virus scan in safemode and system restore if you can. post results.

[editline]21st December 2010[/editline]

The fact that it gets to the windows loading screen is a good indication that it's probably not a hardware problem but probably a driver issue/broken windows install/virus etc.[/QUOTE]

I did system restore, it does the same thing.
I did a quick virus scan with avast! anti-virus and it found.... Nothing.
Now what do I do?

[Protection]

automerge bump
wait
what the fuck automerge doesn't work
wait, does fp even have automerge
god dammit

[WarriorXK]

[QUOTE=Protection;26866776]automerge bump
wait
what the fuck automerge doesn't work
wait, does fp even have automerge
god dammit[/QUOTE]

Automerge stops working when a post is ~3 hours old so it is possible to bump a thread.

[ief014]

I remember this always used to happen to me.
It was because of a loose motherboard power cable. :v

I say check and make sure that all of your components aren't loose and are securely in place, in case it's the same problem as me.

[Protection]

[QUOTE=bootv2;26882243]do a full system scan, a quick scan might not be enough[/QUOTE]

Still didn't find anything.
I think it might be my GPU or what ief said. I dunno, i'ma open up this shitter of mine whenever i'm not high sortof

[wlzshroom]

yeah sounds like a gpu problem though i might be/probably am wrong

[Chipset]

Uninstall your graphics drivers in safe mode (use a utility like driver sweeper) and try it.
You might be looking at a broken graphics card. if the gpu is borked, the problem would be when it tried to initialize the drivers, it fucks over.

[editline]23rd December 2010[/editline]

If it works after uninstalling the drivers you're either looking at a broken graphics card or broken drivers.
Start by trying to reinstall the drivers using the newest version. if that doesn't work, try finding an old working version.