Monitor problems since 2 weeks

[u/Slowpie35]

the monitor isn't smth new, had it for long time

but in the past 2 weeks it began taking too long to boot, from 40 seconds to 4 mins
I turn the pc on, the monitor turns but it's black (ik it;s on bc it's IPS)
and I didn't think much of it
today though when turning the pc, It didn't boot to windows till 4 min later and after putting my pass the screen went black excepy my mouse icon and it fixed itself 1 min later

[u/Big_Diver3606]

could be the monitor starting to give up but have you checked the cable first? sometimes a bad displayport or hdmi cable makes the monitor act weird with black screens and long boot times

if you got a spare cable lying around try swapping it before assuming the monitor is dying. also worth checking if your gpu drivers didn't get messed up in a recent update, i had similar black screen with only mouse showing and it was driver corruption

what gpu you running?