Monitor or PC problem?

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So, my friend and I bought computers at exactly the same time, from ocuk of course.

Roughly 1 year and 1 month later, we both started having the same problems. Now the problems we're having are exactly the same issue and with in a short space of each other.

Our systems are almost identical, except for the motherboard and graphics card. My friend had this problem around 2 weeks ago and never solved the issue, however, I formatted from Windows 7 back to XP(solved a game crash problem) And now I'm having the exact same problem.

Now the problem that we're experiencing is, when ever the monitor and PC is turned off for a duration of time, say 20minutes or more. The monitor refuses to turn off. The PC's boot up fine, I can hear windows starting up through my headphones.

If this does turn out to be a monitor problem, I'm just wondering what my guarantee is on the monitors, I'm unsure whether it's 1 or 3 years. The monitors are Samsung Syncmaster 2053BW, so if anyone knows what the guarantee is that would be appreciated, aswell as solving the issue =] Thanks/
 
Now the problem that we're experiencing is, when ever the monitor and PC is turned off for a duration of time, say 20minutes or more. The monitor refuses to turn off. The PC's boot up fine, I can hear windows starting up through my headphones.

Your description makes it sound like the monitor is not turning on.
 
Yeah sorry, it refuses to turn on, my bad, was slightly baked when I was typing this out.

All the cables are in correctly, we tried a different graphics card in my friend PC and he had the same problem.
 
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