Monitors spontaneously going to DPMS off mode.

[Todd Anderson]

Windows XP - SP2
NVidia GeForce FX 5700 - latest driver from Microsoft
Two monitors in case that makes a difference.

What is happening recently is that my monitors will transition to
DPMS off mode randomly and spontaneously while I'm sitting
here in the middle of doing something. This isn't a crash of the
whole system because if I happened to be playing music, the
music will continue and I can VNC to the machine and see
that everything is working fine.

This behavior can be triggered much more easily though by
running a DirectX game. It will typically happen within a
minute or so of starting a DirectX game.

All of my power settings are set to "never"...e.g., never hibernate,
never turn monitors off, etc.

Any suggestions?

thanks,

Todd

 

[Todd Anderson]

Windows XP - SP2
NVidia GeForce FX 5700 - latest driver from Microsoft
Two monitors in case that makes a difference.

What is happening recently is that my monitors will transition to
DPMS off mode randomly and spontaneously while I'm sitting
here in the middle of doing something. This isn't a crash of the
whole system because if I happened to be playing music, the
music will continue and I can VNC to the machine and see
that everything is working fine.

This behavior can be triggered much more easily though by
running a DirectX game. It will typically happen within a
minute or so of starting a DirectX game.

The fan on the video card evidently died and the heat sensor was kicking the
card off whenever you started a graphics intensive game which heated up
the GPU. Now, where does one get a replacement for such a fan or is it
likely if the heat sensor has tripped 10 times that the card is shot?