9700PRO locking up?

[Menelmarar]

At random times when I come home from work and I wake my computer up, the monitor comes out of standby and stays black. Doesn't go back into no signal, monitor thinks its gettings a proper signal, but its just black. no login screen from where ive locked my workstation or anything.

So I disable standby on monitor thinking that something is flaky. I resort to turning my monitor off before leaving for work and when going to bed instead. Again, same thing occurs. Computer hasn't locked up. I use remote desktop frequently during the day, and I'm at my laptop now and can access my FTP and my remote desktop just fine.

Just logged out of remote desktop. Did not wake it up.

Before I had my laptop I just had to hard reboot my computer, power off and back on. Why does it do this?

I just told it to reboot via Remoate Desktop, and still nothing. Took a very very long time, but eventually rebooted and display is working as it boots up.

What is the problem with it?

 

[oakdad]

No expert when it comes to computers but have a 9700pro and this is the repeating list of things to do and or check I have read or heard to date.

Install the latest driver.

Follow this procedure to uninstall. This last Friday was the first time I have done so and it hasn't locked up since and I have had this video card for over a year.
Note: Down load your monitor driver before doing this because the procedure uninstalls that on you. I learned it the hard way so I figured I pass it on.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=752253

Catalyst 4.7 found here
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=774431&page=1&pp=20

Follow this install procedure found here to install it
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_47_Release_Notes.html#170366


Other things I keep hearing over the past year on this card is make sure you have a quality psu 400w or larger.

The last thing is turn the 8x to 4x and turn off the "fast write" in SMARTGART.
I haven't done this since I never new where to do so until yesterday and I guess it is found somewhere in the ATi control panel.

 

[Menelmarar]

No expert when it comes to computers but have a 9700pro and this is the repeating list of things to do and or check I have read or heard to date.

Install the latest driver.

Follow this procedure to uninstall. This last Friday was the first time I have done so and it hasn't locked up since and I have had this video card for over a year.
Note: Down load your monitor driver before doing this because the procedure uninstalls that on you. I learned it the hard way so I figured I pass it on.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=752253

Catalyst 4.7 found here
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=774431&page=1&pp=20

Follow this install procedure found here to install it
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_47_Release_Notes.html#170366


Other things I keep hearing over the past year on this card is make sure you have a quality psu 400w or larger.

The last thing is turn the 8x to 4x and turn off the "fast write" in SMARTGART.
I haven't done this since I never new where to do so until yesterday and I guess it is found somewhere in the ATi control panel.

My sig shows that I have a 4x only motherboard
My sig shows I have an Enermax 431W Powersupply

Ive never heard of fast write having issues with intel based systems, especially on something as tried and true as the i845.

Between all my driver upgrades I always uninstall, boot to safe mode and run DriverCleaner, then boot back up. I'll try following those ati instructions though, couldn't hurt, thanks didn't nkow they had published a howto