[NCLUG] Monitor Questions

[Michael Wailes]

I've got a strange problem...and potentially costly.

I'm running an Ubuntu box (specs coming) and have three monitors hooked 
up to it. The problem is that if I don't shut the system down properly. 
I lose the monitors. Here is a better explanation: If I turn a monitor 
off, while the machine is still running, I cannot get the monitor to 
come back on...it locks itself in sleep mode. Even if I switch the 
monitor to another machine (mac, pc, linux)...it is just in coma. I just 
had a water in the basement problem and had to shut everything down real 
quick (cut the power supply) and now all the monitors are locked in 
sleep mode. So far I've gone through 6 monitors. Maybe they are just 
cheap monitors (AOC) but I'm thinking there might be something going on 
with the video card sending a sleep signal or something.


Like I said, I will provide some more specs on the machine and the card 
once I get the machine back up, but was curious if anyone else had ever 
experienced a similar problem.

Thanks,

Michael D. Waile