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Monitor Going Into Power Save Mode

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djfunz

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Hey everyone. My wonderful PC has decided to give me some trouble last night. I powered up like normal and saw the POST screen, the blue Windows logo, and then bam! Nothing. The monitor goes into power save mode.

I attempted a PC refresh and reset to no avail. I even tried just a clean install on my SSD. Didn't solve the issue. This eliminated the resolution theory. I can view UEFI BIOS just fine. I get all the way up to the Windows logo and then it cuts out. Very odd.

I have some old hardware lying around that I'm going to try tonight to troubleshoot. I have an old PCIe card to see if the GTX 680 is the culprit. I have another HDD to see if the SSD is the issue. I'll even try another monitor. I've got a DVI cable to replace the DisplayPort cable if cabling is the cause. If all else fails I'll try and install Win7 to see if 8 just hates me.

Any other suggestions that I might have missed?
 
Domini said:
Sounds like a driver issue
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It sounds like the drivers or CP are loading and killing the video, since you can view the BIOS and the loading screen. Though, I honestly don't know what drivers Windows will load when going into safe mode, which would go a long way in finding out if it is in fact the drivers...

What version of drivers were you running, and did you just upgrade to the newest beta?

EDIT: Some more ideas...

- it might be cutting off the DisplayPort in favor of the DVI or HDMI connectors when loading up, so i'd try a DVI cable and see if you still lose video.

- Does your motherboard have another PCI-E x16 slot that will act as primary video to try and use?
 
Great ideas mavrocket. This is one of the reasons I decided to just try re-installing Win8. Fresh default drivers never failed with this set-up in the past. The problem remained identical though even after the install was completed and the PC tried booting for the first time.

I'm bringing home a DVI cable tonight to test that and see if it has something to do with DisplayPort.

I have the Asus P9x79 Deluxe so I have other PCIe slots to try for sure. The slot that the card is currently in is the primary slot for video. I even reset the BIOS settings to default settings just to rule out any funky configs. Everything is running water though with tubing cut precisely to the PCIe slot it's currently in. I do have another card I can test in that slot though to see if it's the card or the board.

I was also reading that safe mode was kinda scrapped in Win8. Now it's just PC refresh and PC reset.
 
Latest update. The issue is with DisplayPort. I swapped the DisplayPort cable with a DVI cable and everything is fine.

I remembered that I have another card with DisplayPorts on it. It worked fine. Looks like a call to Nvidia and probably the second RMA on this GTX 680. Might be time to step up.
 
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