I've had some problems lately where I'm playing a game and all of the sudden my monitor turns black and goes into the orange light powersaving mode, stating no signal detected. My computer still runs, but I can't get my screen to go back on. I then restart the computer and later when i'm playing a game the same thing may happen. Is this a problem with my powersupply perhaps? Around the same time my hard drive went bad to the point where bios no longer recognized it. I bought a new hard drive and installed that and this problem just started upon playing a game again. Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks

Have you checked your settings via Control Panel | Display | Screen Saver

Set Screen Saver to None

Then click Monitor power | Power | Power Schemes

Set all options to Never

Then under Hibernate make sure that Hibernate is Not enabled.

Thanks for the reply. Yes I've tried all of that, but i don't think that should have anything to do with it because the computer is active as I'm playing a game when this happens. After the last time it did this I took out a PCI card, switched the power plug on my hard drive, and changed the voltage on my ram slots to the lower setting. After doing this i've had no problems yet, so I am guessing that the problem is indeed my Power supply.

Glad it's working!

Let us know how it goes.

If you are playing a game that does not use the keyboard & or mouse your screen saver & power management settings will rule the computer.

If you are using a joystick & or game pad the computer does not recognise these devices as active usage.

ooooo im having a similer problem and have posted a thread called "no video input". How did you alter your power supply on the ram?

Hey, I ended up turning the RAM dimms onto the lowest voltage I could by going into bios and editing the voltage controls. I made my computer so I new exactly what I had access to, I don't know if you will be able to do the same thing, as some motherboards don't allow this. Did you just get more RAM or a new PCI card or something? Because when I got new RAM this started happening which led me to think of the PSU. Let me know what happens.