I have Windows 10
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
Acer Monitor AL2216W
I have been back and forth with symptoms as to whether it's the card or the monitor. I have run a diagnostic on my video card and it seems to be fine.
This is a run down of today's symptomsm which is pretty common lately when I wake up the computer in the AM.
- monitor shows orange light
- press wake up button on computer
- computer on, no stange sounds
- monitor still orange
- tap key on board...still orange
- move mouse...still orange
- 2x orange light goes off/on
- 1x green flashes on/off
- then nothing
- then gren light, Acer flashes on screen, "no signal" then orange light
- so I walk away for a while...sometimes it comes on after a long while, as in 15-20+ minutes
- an hour later still orange, tap monitor power button off/on
- green light flashes on/off, screen flashes Acer, "no signal" and then orange light
- try the on/off button a few time (sometimes this has worked)
- reboot the computer as this has sometimes worked (even though I don't like to do this without a proper shut down/restart)
- so now it's on for the day
NOTE ...once the monitor is on, it stays on with no problems. ONLY twice over a month ago did the screen flash on and off once or twice while I was using it. Never again since then.
