mandeep148 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 this is first day of Asus Gtx 970, everything workng awesome, but when my PC get idle Sleep as afk display, it shows "attention, Check Connection Cable" instead of just TURN OFF with Blinking Monitor power LED , can any one guess why is it happening? thanks Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/759545-why-my-monitor-is-showing-check-your-cable-when-it-goes-afk/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG14876 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I don't think I've ever seen a monitor say "Turn Off" (well, aside from those old "now it is safe to turn off your monitor/computer" messages). Did it do this before with the other video input? What was that input? (motherboard/other video card...) And do you mean that the PC is going into sleep mode? Good choice on the Strix, I have one and it is great. mandeep148 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/759545-why-my-monitor-is-showing-check-your-cable-when-it-goes-afk/?do=findComment&comment=1066769959 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandeep148 Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 (edited) I don't think I've ever seen a monitor say "Turn Off" (well, aside from those old "now it is safe to turn off your monitor/computer" messages). Did it do this before with the other video input? What was that input? (motherboard/other video card...) And do you mean that the PC is going into sleep mode? Good choice on the Strix, I have one and it is great. thanks for reply no im not saying monitor says "turn off" yea before at gtx 760 monitor get totally power off with monitor power led blinks, now at gtx 970 same monitor, at sleep, screen stay on with black background and a dialogue box with msg "Attention: Check your Cable" i also noticed my monitor is not getting detect fully, just written non pnp monitor instead of Philips 203V Edited January 5, 2015 by mandeep148 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/759545-why-my-monitor-is-showing-check-your-cable-when-it-goes-afk/?do=findComment&comment=1066770044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky12 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 (edited) Try a different cable or connector, some monitors will say check your cable during sleep mode while others will just show a blank screen with the blinking power led. Most of the time monitors don't need drivers, but check out philips site to see if there is and install it. Did device manager show your monitor before changing to the GT 970? If yes, then just manually install the driver yourself, it should already be inside the windows driver database. Edited January 5, 2015 by Stinky12 mandeep148 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/759545-why-my-monitor-is-showing-check-your-cable-when-it-goes-afk/?do=findComment&comment=1066770265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandeep148 Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 Try a different cable or connector, some monitors will say check your cable during sleep mode while others will just show a blank screen with the blinking power led. Most of the time monitors don't need drivers, but check out philips site to see if there is and install it. Did device manager show your monitor before changing to the GT 970? If yes, then just manually install the driver yourself, it should already be inside the windows driver database. thanks for reply yea before it had shown proper name of monitor, + was using same windows 8.1, i tried to reinstall too, im using dvi to Vga connector, i dont know which is good quality of, i ordered one more today, yes i saw on their website, but there is just signature,its not getting install even by device manager too, its showing now, Generic Non Pnp Monitor there are so many resoultion upto 1600p may be this is because of new feature of Gtx 970 who knows, all games runs smooth, any suggestion? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/759545-why-my-monitor-is-showing-check-your-cable-when-it-goes-afk/?do=findComment&comment=1066770855 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinky12 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Run DVI not DVI to VGA. Does your monitor have a DVI connector. For resolution, run the highest your monitor can support. mandeep148 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/759545-why-my-monitor-is-showing-check-your-cable-when-it-goes-afk/?do=findComment&comment=1066771357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandeep148 Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 Run DVI not DVI to VGA. Does your monitor have a DVI connector. For resolution, run the highest your monitor can support. my monitor is VGA, thats why i use DVI to VGA, my monitor supports 900p, that resolution is available, but main problem is it shows that signal is stopped when it goes sleep. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/759545-why-my-monitor-is-showing-check-your-cable-when-it-goes-afk/?do=findComment&comment=1066774713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG14876 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Run DVI not DVI to VGA. Does your monitor have a DVI connector. For resolution, run the highest your monitor can support. my monitor is VGA, thats why i use DVI to VGA, my monitor supports 900p, that resolution is available, but main problem is it shows that signal is stopped when it goes sleep. That's because the signal is stopped when it goes to sleep. The monitor knows it's connected to an active computer but isn't receiving any video signal from it, so it says "check cable". Though, why are you putting the computer to sleep instead of shutdown? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/759545-why-my-monitor-is-showing-check-your-cable-when-it-goes-afk/?do=findComment&comment=1066776715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mandeep148 Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 (edited) Run DVI not DVI to VGA. Does your monitor have a DVI connector. For resolution, run the highest your monitor can support. my monitor is VGA, thats why i use DVI to VGA, my monitor supports 900p, that resolution is available, but main problem is it shows that signal is stopped when it goes sleep. That's because the signal is stopped when it goes to sleep. The monitor knows it's connected to an active computer but isn't receiving any video signal from it, so it says "check cable". Though, why are you putting the computer to sleep instead of shutdown? thanks for reply no im doing it sleep, i was talking about Monitor Sleep, like we have settings on windows power Option, when we get away from PC as "AFK" display get Sleep not computer(CPU will go sleep after 30 mins depends on settings),before when i was using Gtx 760 the monitor gets truly sleep without any "No connection Msg" yea but that time i was using Good DVI to VGA connector, now im using cheap one(here in our location people says it good) i ordered the Blue one, i hope it works good. Edited January 7, 2015 by mandeep148 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/759545-why-my-monitor-is-showing-check-your-cable-when-it-goes-afk/?do=findComment&comment=1066781003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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