So I apologize if this has been asked before. I know I have seen similar situations as this one I am asking about. However, none of the solutions I have seen yet seem to help with my situation. My problem is this: whenever I go to play a game, any game, after somewhere between 5-15 minutes of playtime the monitor goes to sleep. When it goes to sleep, nothing is able to "wake" it back up. It is just dead, with a "no signal" sign floating around. I try pressing escape, space, clicking, turning monitor on and off. Nothing.
I have the system set so that the monitor has no set time limit for staying awake. I am also running on high performance mode. Also, when I try turning the whole system (computer and monitor) off then back on, there will still be a "no input" sign floating around when I turn the whole system back on. I Have to shut everything off and turn everything on at least twice after the initial time the monitor sleeps.
Since it does this with very very old AND new games, I am assuming this has nothing to do with anything overheating or the system being overworked, as this is a modern desktop. Also, I do not hear the desktop over working either. Most of the time it is silent. Also, I am convinced that having to do a factory restart or do something major to the hardware is not the answer either, as I doubt that is the problem.
Another piece of important imformation. It literally started doing this one day. There was nothing new that we did to it or changed in it. I was playing a game one day everything was working fine and dandy. I was able to do this for a few years. I Went back to play it a few days later, then the monitor starts going to sleep whenever I play any game after about 5-15 minutes.
So my question is this: taking everything I said into consideration, what other things could be potentially the issue? What things can I do to solve these potential issues?
Here are my system details:
Monitor: w2207h
Computer:
Model: d5200t
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83 GHz
Memory: 6.00 GB
System type: 64-bit Operating System