Screen blanks out occasionally.

A few times a week my monitor goes all black for a
few seconds and then resumes. Is this normal?

I have a NVidia GeForce GTX1050

Peter Jason wrote:
A few times a week my monitor goes all black for a
few seconds and then resumes. Is this normal?

I have a NVidia GeForce GTX1050


VPU Reset.

Check Reliability Monitor.

Google around for "best driver for GTX1050"
and see what is available.

Also consider whether any application software
has installed some sort of "shim" which is reducing
stability in your setup.

If the video card stops responding (does not "eat"
display command), a timer scheme gives the thing
a whack on the side and restarts it. The "black screen"
time, is the time to restore normalcy by warm starting
the driver and delivering a hardware reset to the card.
Something like that.

It's also possible the name of this operation has
changed over the years, so that "term" might not be
acceptable in polite circles.

"VPU Recover has reset your graphics
accelerator as it was no longer
responding to graphics driver commands"

While it is also possible for a monitor resolution change
to do something like that, since you'd be doing something
to cause such a change, you would correlate the two
activities ("I change resolution, blackness happens").

The transition to blackness is not considered normal.
My 1080 doesn't do that. The ancient video card on this
machine is stable too.

And the latest NVidia control scheme is quite good
at setting voltages and frequencies. There's really
no excuse for this to be related to some "vendor overclock"
problem, as the card is "quite turned down" when just
sitting there. In the middle of a game, not so much.

You can also try a utility like this, to watch the card with.

https://www.techspot.com/downloads/4452-gpu-z.html

Paul

On 4/7/2019 5:30 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
A few times a week my monitor goes all black for a
few seconds and then resumes. Is this normal?

I have a NVidia GeForce GTX1050

My AMD HD5450 does that about once a week.
It was worse on the nvidia card.
I gave up looking for a better driver and just
consider it a win10 quirk.

"Peter Jason" wrote

|A few times a week my monitor goes all black for a
| few seconds and then resumes. Is this normal?
|

In addition to other ideas, check the cord. HDMI
is very sensitive to being plugged in tightly, but it
doesn't have the thumbscrews that older connections
had.

On Sun, 07 Apr 2019 22:42:01 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Peter Jason wrote:
A few times a week my monitor goes all black for a
few seconds and then resumes. Is this normal?

I have a NVidia GeForce GTX1050


VPU Reset.

Check Reliability Monitor.

Google around for "best driver for GTX1050"
and see what is available.

Also consider whether any application software
has installed some sort of "shim" which is reducing
stability in your setup.

If the video card stops responding (does not "eat"
display command), a timer scheme gives the thing
a whack on the side and restarts it. The "black screen"
time, is the time to restore normalcy by warm starting
the driver and delivering a hardware reset to the card.
Something like that.

It's also possible the name of this operation has
changed over the years, so that "term" might not be
acceptable in polite circles.

"VPU Recover has reset your graphics
accelerator as it was no longer
responding to graphics driver commands"

While it is also possible for a monitor resolution change
to do something like that, since you'd be doing something
to cause such a change, you would correlate the two
activities ("I change resolution, blackness happens").

The transition to blackness is not considered normal.
My 1080 doesn't do that. The ancient video card on this
machine is stable too.

And the latest NVidia control scheme is quite good
at setting voltages and frequencies. There's really
no excuse for this to be related to some "vendor overclock"
problem, as the card is "quite turned down" when just
sitting there. In the middle of a game, not so much.

You can also try a utility like this, to watch the card with.

https://www.techspot.com/downloads/4452-gpu-z.html

Paul

Thanks, I will download the app & try. In the
meantime into daily image backups at the end of
each day. The computre becomes more indispensable
every day.

Peter Jason wrote:
A few times a week my monitor goes all black for a
few seconds and then resumes. Is this normal?

I have a NVidia GeForce GTX1050

Nope. Definitely not normal. Check the connections of your monitor, do a
factory reset on the monitor (if possible) and consider replacing the
cable. What is the monitor and how old is it?