Try updating your video adapter drivers.

"Venkat V" <venkat@voruganti.com> wrote in message
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> My desktop is Dell Dimension 8400 with XP Pro. Monitor is 2001FP
>
> Once in a while I use remote desktop client, on my laptop, to login and
> work on my desktop. Everytime I do this, the monitor on the desktop
> stops working. Monitor behaves as if the computer is off. I can see
> that the PC is on. I can disconnect & reconnect a remote desktop session
> into it. I have to do a hard reboot to make the default monitor to work.
>
> Has anybody faced similar issues? has any suggestions?
>
> thanks..
> Ben
>