I have an Emachines system with XP Homne Edition. Last weekend the desktop
display began disappearing after less than a minute. It would go off, then
come back and do this several times and finally stay off. The NumLock LED
stayed on all the time. I downloaded the Taskbarplus! program, but I can't
get it to stay up long enough to get the program into the system. How am I
going to get the desktop to stay up long enough to try to fix it? Is the
answer to use an XP CD and come up that way?
--
Dave Barnes

"Dave B" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have an Emachines system with XP Homne Edition. Last weekend the desktop
> display began disappearing after less than a minute. It would go off,
> then
> come back and do this several times and finally stay off. The NumLock LED
> stayed on all the time. I downloaded the Taskbarplus! program, but I
> can't
> get it to stay up long enough to get the program into the system. How am
> I
> going to get the desktop to stay up long enough to try to fix it? Is the
> answer to use an XP CD and come up that way?
> --
> Dave Barnes

Have you tried another monitor, or reseating the cables to the monitor?

HTH
-pk

The first thing I did was to replace the monitor and cable. It had no
effect. I just wonder about using an XP CD to boot up and maybe run a repair
mode. Could there be some code that got scrambled somehow?
--
Dave Barnes


"Patrick Keenan" wrote:

> "Dave B" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:02A1C18C-A5B7-4111-91D8-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I have an Emachines system with XP Homne Edition. Last weekend the desktop
> > display began disappearing after less than a minute. It would go off,
> > then
> > come back and do this several times and finally stay off. The NumLock LED
> > stayed on all the time. I downloaded the Taskbarplus! program, but I
> > can't
> > get it to stay up long enough to get the program into the system. How am
> > I
> > going to get the desktop to stay up long enough to try to fix it? Is the
> > answer to use an XP CD and come up that way?
> > --
> > Dave Barnes
>
> Have you tried another monitor, or reseating the cables to the monitor?
>
> HTH
> -pk
>
>