Monitor Randomly Goes Black

This is my first post too! Yay!
Unfortunately, I am having the same issue.

The monitor runs fine till it blacks out, but is happily still "on" and apparently assuming there is a signal to be had.

The card I have is a Radeon 32bit that is a little over a year old.
But since I moved in with a smoker, I cleaned it out and yes, it was dirty.
So now I am checking to see if newer drivers will work for the card, as they came with the oldest they had, and up to this point I was almost positive it was a monitor issue till I did the troubleshooting and research to figure out otherwise.

Was this issue ever solved?

Welcome to Windrivers obaba

Right click on the desktop - properties, screensavers, power button - check that the monitor is not set to shut off to save power.

Testing performance on a borrowed monitor, as the power management and monitor settings have been toyed with to those specifications.

There is now the possiblitiy it is the monitor (for me at least), and I and checking it out.

Thanks!