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Question

Monitor won't start up after sleep.

Sep 19, 2015 7:27AM PDT

The computer goes to sleep after a period of inactivity, when mouse or keyboard is used the tower starts up but the monitor won't. I've gone into Device Manager and made sure mouse and keyboard will wake machine, but alas, no monitor. Must reboot every time. Pain in the *** Anyone have any ideas?

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I see no make or model
Sep 19, 2015 7:31AM PDT

So for now stop using sleep and set it to hibernate.

You need to see if the maker has drivers for your PC and ask them if it works for sleep.

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Thank you for your reply.
Sep 19, 2015 12:52PM PDT

I'm sorry, it is the computer at work. Unfortunately, a little knowledge has transformed me into an IT/Truck Driver. It's a Future Shop cheapo HP it has a very low end AMD video card and 16 G of ram. It's running Win 10 / 64.

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Ahh, 10.
Sep 19, 2015 1:22PM PDT

Most Windows 10 machines I bump into were upgrades from prior OSes without post install work on drivers.

That is, a large percentage of folk never did a clean install of Windows of any version and learned that Microsoft is not going to do that work for us. And I can't either. Why? Because with 1,000s of different PCs I can only supply the guide. Here it is.

When I install or upgrade Windows I find drivers and install in this order.

1. Motherboard chipset. Varies wildly. Can be all in one, may require USB, RAID or other packages.
2. Audio.
3. Video.
4. LAN, WLAN, Bluetooth, other wireless things.
5. APPs. HP should have "helper" apps to control, enable WiFi and more.

That's the rundown and because there are now 1,000's of models out there I have to research each model that a paying client gives me. For volunteer work I offer this guide.
Note: Corrected spelling error.

Post was last edited on September 19, 2015 1:26 PM PDT