Monitor Flashes Black

UDT89

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Every so often my screen will flash black, and go back to the desktop. After doing so for about 5-6 times, it will flash to black and go into standby mode, yellow light, and never come back.


Any help would be great.
 
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Sounds like a problem with your monitor's power saving settings. Try Control Panel\Power Options, turn the Standby setting to never, and see if it goes to Standby anymore.
 

UDT89

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i have standby off.

i updated the monitor drivers from Gateway's website. But its still doing it. Could it be a power supply problem?

Yesterday it did it again, and i had to restart. When it restarted, it came up in the lowest resolution. The drivers for my video card had to be reinstalled.
 

Muse

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Originally posted by: UDT89
i have standby off.

i updated the monitor drivers from Gateway's website. But its still doing it. Could it be a power supply problem?

Yesterday it did it again, and i had to restart. When it restarted, it came up in the lowest resolution. The drivers for my video card had to be reinstalled.

Has it happened since you reinstalled your video driver?
 

UDT89

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well im at work right now

but its a dv700? monitor from gateway. its a 17" crt. i updated that driver as well, still didnt fix it.

Geforce TNT2...gottta double check.
 

UDT89

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well it seems as though i got past the screen flashing black for now...........

but if i leave my computer on idle for over an hour, i will come back to the computer hit a key or move the mouse and i get a blue screen error. This has happened before, but i thought it would go away with the screen issues.