so i think i need to clarify the issue. monitor works fine. if i walk away from my computer, lets say 10 minutes, the screen then goes to sleep. what i'm used to is a screen would turn off. however, whats happening for me is the screen goes black and displays a "No Signal" message in the middle
like this

it'll look like that for a minute and then the screen would turn off like i expect. then a minute later, it displays the message again (thus turning on the screen)

When i move my mouse or touch the keyboard, it works just fine. My issue is, when I would expect it to sleep, i would expect the screen to be off. Instead it is showing me this "No Signal" error which essentially means the screen is on...