Seris and her incompetant computer

Alright so, last night my computer was running just fine. It hasn't been running particularly slow or anything, I haven't downloaded anything that may indicate that there is spyware or malware on my computer...

But today, after having placed my computer on standby mode for the night, I attempted to boot it up again for use and was met with nothing but a blank, black screen. THere was no mouse or cursor present, nothing on screen.

So I attempted to manually restart the computer--since the keyboard wasn't responding--and again, there was nothing but a black screen. The keyboard or mouse apparently weren't being recognized either (they typically flash or blink when I start up my computer). My monitor was on. Nothing appeared at ALL on the monitor.

At this point I've started unplugging everything from my computer, figuring that I would have to take it in somewhere. Then I remembered something from another occasion when the same thing had happened: I simply decided to plug in only the monitor and the power cord to my computer and turn it on.

There was a huge rush of air from the fan as it turned on, and then everything booted up normally after that. I proceeded to plug everything back in, and now everything seems to be working fine. I've double checked for spyware and everything just to make sure that wasn't the problem, and it's not. So at this point I have no fucking clue what is wrong with my computer, other than it insists on being a piece of shit from time to time.

I should also mention that some time ago, before buying a new computer, my girlfriend had purchased a new monitor for me as I used to run on one of those big old block monitors; I now have a flatscreen. After plugging in the flatscreen my old computer has since died (two days after having the new monitor plugged into it) and my current computer has occasional troubles such as this (it won't boot up from time to time)


SOME INFORMATION ON THE MONITOR:

By the advice of Lehah, I've taken some screencaps of some monitor information that may be necessary for you all to know. If anybody needs to know more information, I will try and gather it the best I can.


Some general information.


I don't know if this is useful or not, but you should know that this monitor has its own special menu for graphics or whatever and shit like that. I have no idea what this menu does or means and I haven't touched it.


Some other screencaps that might be necessary for you to see are the model/make of my computer, RAM, etc. Here's that for you:




So thats that. For those of you who didn't bother to read the TL;DR post above, the run down on this situation pretty much is this:

• Put the computer on standby for the night, tried to boot it up next morning, blank screen
• tried to manually restart the computer, nothing boot up, blank screen
• unplugged everything from the back of computer except power cord and monitor plug
• booted up fine after that: besides unnerving fan-blasting sound after initial boot up

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

You could try installing Windows Reference Drivers for LCD Monitors instead of the specific ones that the monitor has. It shouldn't hurt the monitor and if there is any sort of weird resolution conflicts going on I'd think it would resolve them.

So um. How... Do I do this?

How ya doing, buddy?