Post #3169754

For whoever needs to hear this: Your monitor should turn on promptly when the machine wakes up. It turns out that my monitor cable has been slowly getting worse over years and, because the degradation was so gradual, I became insensitive to it. It would take five or more seconds for my monitor to switch on after waking my machine. Occasionally it wouldn't manage to come on at all and I would have to press the key combo to lock the screen and then wake it again. Finally it got to the point where the monitor would sometimes go black for a few seconds and I replaced the cable. Now I'm surprised every time it responds promptly.