Video Card or LCD problem? Help please!

[sfang42369]

I have an eVGA 8800GT and a princeton 20.1 inch LCD monitor. My video card is less than a year old, and my monitor is maybe 3 years old. I like to leave my computer on overnight and i turn my monitor screen off so i can sleep. When i wake up in the morning, i turn the monitor on, and this is the problem; the monitor turns on like normal, shows my desktop for an instant, and suddenly turns black, the black is like a flickering black. I cant turn the monitor off when this happens, and it only stops when i shut the computer off by holding the power button. Is the problem my monitor or my video card? If i got a new monitor would it solve this problem?

 

[lowteckh]

You could always just go get a new monitor from a big box to see if it solves it, then returning it later... Faster than waiting for a response.