If you are one among those who have had the experience of the monitor going off when you are working on it, then the problem is a system crash or access violation. Such a crash is the result of incompatibility of your video driver with Windows. Suppose you are not used to using troubleshooting you would look into reparing it a store nearby, and if you know about the happenings then you will realize that all you need is a video driver update.
Video driver is software in your computer and this driver is linked properly in order to get an output on the screen. You should turn into VGA display if you suspect that the problem is an access violation. If you have enough knowledge on your video driver updates, you need not spend a lot of money on engineers and programmers. You need a lot of information on your video care driver and the ways to change the VGA video adapter.
The Ways to find the current driver and video card
1. Click on start menu and go to control panel.
2. Click on display and key in the settings.
3. Copy down the setting on a piece of paper.
4. Choose the advance button and click on the adapter tab.
5. The video card information will be displayed.
6. Note down all the information displayed.
The Ways to change the Standard VGA video adapter:
1. Start the computer only in one mode that is the safe mode. Restart the computer and prior to the rebooting press F8.
2. After coming into safe mode, click on control panel from start menu and click on display icon.
3. Select the setting tab after going into display.
4. Select advance and click on adapter tab.
5. Click change after clicking on adapter tab.
6. After clicking on the next button in update device driver wizard, allow the wizard to lookup the drivers.
7. Click on display and click on next button again.
8. Post this choose standard display adapter (VGA).
9. Click next twice until you arrive at a dialog box where there is a finish button.
10. Close the dialog box of the display button.
11. Restart your computer and allow windows to start the way it usually does.
Just in case your problem gets solved, then the issue here is with your video driver or the connection between the video card and the hardware. After getting information on your video card, go to the internet and browse for the video card similar to yours and download it. Find the same version of the video card and install it following the guidelines. If there are no instructions provided then you can follow the set up icon and complete the installation procedure. Restart the computer after installing, and continue with your work since you just had a video driver update.