When I turn on my monitor the screen is black and the power light on the monitor blinks every few seconds. This continues for 5-10 minutes and then either displays my desktop or a white screen.
I am running Windows 7 64-bit and have an NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT graphics card.
Any ideas what could be causing this?
Best Answer
This assumes you are speaking of an LCD monitor...
Sounds like your monitor is dying (long returns from power-off, and all-white screens are bad news).
You may want to see if it behaves the same way on another computer; If so, then it's done-for.
Otherwise, you'll want to get a hold of another monitor to try with your system (including a new cable) to see how it behaves. If it's doing the same thing, it's not the monitor.
But I'd be willing to bet a doughnut or two it's the LCD, as we were fortunate enough to replace a couple/few dozen Samsung's under warranty due to this same problem over the year. Eventually (if not very soon after problems started) the white screen would be all you got.