How to get my monitor off standby?

If this is a desktop pc, and you have moved it about while doing something, there is a small chance the graphics card is broken, and no signal is getting to the monitor.

Some monitors are a pain in the ass to get off of standby, but in most cases, if the monitor stays blank, or saying no signal, more often than not it is damage to the cable or graphics card.

Tips: Hold the power button down for 3, 5 or 10 seconds instead of a single click. Unplug it and plug it back in with the computer power off, and then try turning it on.

If that don’t work, test the monitor on another computer to rule out damage to the graphics card, and try a different cable if you have that option, to see if that is the problem.

@poisonedantidote I booted down etc; before unplugging. There was a storm last night. I should still do all that?

Yea, do it just to rule it out. It is all about process of elimination in these cases.

However, now that you mention a storm, that could have problems of its own. Did you manage to get it all unplugged before the storm? is internet wireless there, or do you use a cable, and if so did you unplug it too? was the monitor also unplugged? and do you own a surge protector?

@poisonedantidote. No it was all fine. I saw the storm coming so booted down as normal. Then waited then unplugged from wall. Then later the storm got worse. I do this routinely if there is a storm. I have noticed befor though if I leave it all night unplugged it goes to standby mode. But does come back. This time it won’t. It boots up in green ‘on’. Then switches to red ‘off’. (Standby) :-(

I don’‘t know what to say then. I would stab in the dark that maybe the monitor uses capacitors for some reason maybe, and that perhaps they are losing charge when unplugged.

Give it a while plugged in to see if it works, and if not maybe call in a professional.

Can you access safe mode? Try rapidly pressing F8 right when you turn it on.

Choose safe mode with networking. Then go to control panel>power options>power schemes>system standby. Then choose never from the dropdown menu. Also…go to power options, then choose the hibernate tab. If the hibernate box is checked, make sure it’s unchecked. Then reboot your machine as normal, and see if it still goes to standby.

Sorry, just realized standby is not available in safe mode. You could try doing a system restore from safe mode, though. Boot up in safe mode but choose safe mode with command prompt. Log into the admin account, not your normal account. At command prompt screen, type in %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe, I have not used this option myself in safe mode, only in normal mode, so not completely sure what it’ll do or if you can even do this. You can only do system restore if you’ve set a restore point.

If you do manage to get your computer working again, you may want to back up all your data and set a restore point.This has saved me many times, due to viruses. Also, in normal mode, you can do the standby change in my previous post.

To create a restore point in normal mode, start>right click “computer”>properties>system protection>create>type any description>create.