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Just thought I'd reply with some pleasant findings, since I've been suffering with this for a while now. My solution was just to disable monitor standby and turn them off manually. But I'm happy to report that the Windows 8.1 preview with the new AMD 8.1 preview drivers fixes the problem...
Tried the latest afterburner 3.0 Beta 9 with ULPS, no luck. I'm also getting a random atikmdag.sys BSOD as well. I have open a thread over at the AMD forums with the memory dump analysis.
As soon as I get my Mini DP -> DVI converter, I'm going to try hooking up both monitors to the AMD card...
I have the exact same issue described by the OP. In fact, it started happening directly after I upgraded from a 6950 to a 7970. I know it's the 7970, because I have one monitor plugged into it, and one into my HD Graphics 3000 and the 7970 remains black when I come back to the PC, while the...