HP Monitor Keeps Going to Sleep

Relocated to Canada. Brought my laptop with me. Had to purchase an HP monitor online from amazon.ca.


Model of monitor is HP Compaq LA2405x. I connect my laptop to my monitor with a VGA cable because that is the only way i can do it. I cannot do DVI because my laptop... Asus u45jc-a1 doesn't have a DVI port. I thought about doing HDMI from laptop to monitor but monitor doesn't have HDMI port so this is the only way to connect.


I went to set up monitor to use multiple monitors.


Display 1 is my laptop monitor that is 14' with 1366x768 resolution which is why i want to use the monitor i bought so i could play on a 24' monitor with 1920x1200 resolution.


I changed the display from that to HP LA2405x with the 1920x1200 resolution and orientation is landscape and for multiple displays, i put show desktop only on 2 because i only want my monitor to show everything and don't want nothing at all displayed on my laptop.



For the power options, i'm on power4gear high performance. I'm either on this one or high performance. Reason is b/c i play lot of tables and need to have it to do its best to go as fast as possible.


For on battery and plugged in... where you have the dim display, turn off the computer, computer go to sleep... i made everything NEVER and also adjust plan brightness is set to the max. I had this done for power4gear high performance, high performance and even power4gear entertainment mode even though i don't use that one. I know the default for on battery when they dim the display is 2 or 5 minutes but i changed everything to never.


Does anyone know what i can do to fix this problem? I can't have my monitor keep going to sleep after 5 minutes or 15 minutes or 30 minutes when im playing poker.


I read online a lot of ppl who have these problems... its almost always an HP monitor.


Anyone who has a monitor like this or HP monitor can give me some advice? Makes no sense it goes to sleep when in the settings i put never for all of them.

 

anyone know?

 

If you disconnect the monitor when it happens then reconnect does it wake up? Also are there any settings on the monitor menu that could casue this?
BTW forum rules do not allow cross posting AFA I know
Also we are allowed to thank people that try to help, but obviously this does not apply to all

 

My moniotor is connected to laptop by VGA cable. No when i disconnect the cable from it... i still have to wait. Basically everytime its like this.


Monitor would go to sleep and i see that message monitor going to sleep. Then on my laptop... i would then press enter many times to get it back to wake up. Usually i have to wait for a bit and press that power button on my laptop then that power button is off... but its not shut down. I think proper term is sleeping? Then i press the power button immediately and then the computer wakes back up and then i would see in my monitor... resuming windows and then i would be back. Problem is this takes 2 minutes everytime it happens.

 

I got another thing i want to ask. I connected my laptop to monitor by VGA cable. I cannot do dvi b/c my laptop doesn't have a dvi port so i would need to purchase an hdmi to dvi cable.


Do you there is a possibility that my monitor keep going to sleep... could it be because im using a VGA and not DVI? Because if this could be a possibility, then i would buy the hdmi to dvi cable. But if there is no way that could be the reason, i probably would stick to vga or return the monitor.