A few weeks ago I moved my desktop (normally setup in a studio space) to another classroom for a weekend workshop, at the end of the workshop I moved it back to my desk. Ever since the move back my monitors have been locking up. I thought it was my computer freezing and something getting dislodged in the move but I've double checked everything and no dice.
I then noticed the problem was happening whenever I was using the USB ports on one of my monitors (plugging in/out usb drives etc), and that music/sound kept playing even though all 3 monitors went blue/gray/black/dark blue+light blue stripes, so I know the computer is still running.
The problem also happens at other times randomly, but is fairly repeatable when I touch the monitor. After some googling I've found some issues with some monoprice mini-dp cables, wondering if that could be it? http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2197437
I did do some better cable management after the move, winding up the extra slack in the 15' cables in loose 1' diameter loops, so also thinking the cables could have a kink/short somewhere from that...
Ideas? should I just buy new cables? RMA video card(don't think there's anything wrong with it though...)
I've turned off all my O/C's and it still happens so its not that.
I then noticed the problem was happening whenever I was using the USB ports on one of my monitors (plugging in/out usb drives etc), and that music/sound kept playing even though all 3 monitors went blue/gray/black/dark blue+light blue stripes, so I know the computer is still running.
The problem also happens at other times randomly, but is fairly repeatable when I touch the monitor. After some googling I've found some issues with some monoprice mini-dp cables, wondering if that could be it? http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2197437
I did do some better cable management after the move, winding up the extra slack in the 15' cables in loose 1' diameter loops, so also thinking the cables could have a kink/short somewhere from that...
Ideas? should I just buy new cables? RMA video card(don't think there's anything wrong with it though...)
I've turned off all my O/C's and it still happens so its not that.