T3X4S Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 I know it sounds weird, but I think I have figured out what the problem is, but now I need to figure out if its my monitor or video card.I found other posts on nVidia forums with people experiencing the same exact thing.When my computer goes to sleep, or I turn the monitor off - it causes an nVidia crash. My monitor is an Asus PB278Q connected to a 760GTX via DisplayPort.Most of the time what happens is when I go to sit back down at the computer, it is unresponsive to wiggling mouse, or hitting keys on keyboard. The monitor gives me a steady blue light showing a live connection to the computer, but no image. The only thing I can do is to reboot the system.Every once in a while, I will be able to get to a desktop and will get a popup saying nVidia driver crashed and recovered.My question is, has anyone heard of anything like this ? It seemed kinda far-fetched, but when I saw others experiencing the same thing - I knew I was on to something.Basically, I need to determine if it is (A) my DisplayPort cable (B) My monitor's DisplayPort, or © My video card's DisplayPort.The only spare cable I have right now is an HDMI which I will use to begin my process of elimination tomorrow, but thought I would post in case someone knows a little about this issue.As Always, Thanks for any Input - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Test monitor by hooking it to your laptop. Did you reseat the video card ? Reinstall video drivers ? Reinstall chipset drivers ? I would swap out the video card for another, if possible. T3X4S 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3X4S Posted November 27, 2014 Author Share Posted November 27, 2014 Well it appears to be the DisplayPort on the video card.I swapped it for HDMI - and no problems. The crash I was experiencing when streaming video to my TV has not happened either.I did a clean install of video drivers, and that did nothing. But as soon as I unplugged DisplayPort and used HDMI -- all is back to normal.The surprising thing about all of this is it stopped the streaming crash. I use serviio to stream video to my TV & it was crashing - I thought it was a bandwidth issue because I noticed how crappy the Verizon Fios router is - but it was the nVidia driver crashing on my desktop which would cause serviio to stop working properly.So all is fixed and perfect again - all because I moved to HDMI Now, is there any negative to using HDMI over DisplayPort ? Hum 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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