Thread: My monitor won't wakeup

I have recently fitted a new graphics card to my PC. It is an Nvidia Geforce 6200 AGP and it generally works fine. The only problem is that whenever I put the PC in sleep mode and then wake it up, the monitor (a 19in flat screen model) stays blank, and I have to reboot the computer every time this happens in order to make it work again. The computer is running Windows XP Home. Is there anything I can do about it?

This sounds like a driver problem. Drivers are small pieces of software that control hardware attached to the computer. In this case, the computer needs to have the correct driver installed so that it can correctly communicate with the graphics card.
Drivers for graphics cards are released quite frequently, so it's worth checking the manufacturer's website often to see if a new one is available.

The process of updating a driver is generally quite painless - it's just like installing any other piece of software. For your Nvidia card, go to and select the appropriate details from the dropdown menus according to your computer. In this case, the product type is Geforce, the product series is Geforce 6 Series and the operating system is Windows XP.

Then click search and follow the instructions that appear. Once you have installed the new drive, the sleep mode on the computer (also known as standby) should work fine.