I use my Raspberry PI with a Samsung SyncMaster SA650, and once in a while it would stop receiving signal. The cable and the monitor both work. Only when I connected to the RPi over VNC I had realised it has the wrong screen resolution. So the solution is to set the resolution back to Full HD that the monitor understands
Run sudo raspi-config
and go to Display -> Resolution, choose DMT Mode 82 1920x1080 60Hz 16:9