I would appreciate any advice Dopers could give regarding a problem I am having with my PC monitor.
The monitor in question is a standard LCD display, not sure of the make offhand.
The problem is as follows:
When starting the computer the monitor initially appears to start normally and then the screen goes black, by switching the monitor off and on the monitor returns to operation for a few seconds allowing an operation (such as rebooting) before going black again, this can continue indefinitely.
Sometimes the monitor works perfectly. I have checked all of the physical connections and have run a virus check on the PC. According to the control panel the device is working normally and the driver seems to be ok.
Is this a hardware or a software problem? I don’t want to go out and buy a new monitor if the problem is something else.
Any advice will be gratefully accepted.
Thanks,
Walker