black screen of death

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How do I determine what is causing this problem?

In Beta 2 I had a problem where Vista would randomly die to a black screen
(not blue screen). At this point I would just have to power down my machine.
In RC1 (5600 and 5728) I did not experience this problem but instead I would
get random blue screens (attributed to my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video driver).
I upgraded to RC2 (5744) over the weekend and now the black screen of death
has come back. Like in Beta 2, I will be using Vista and then all of a sudden
the screen will turn black and the monitor goes into low power mode.
ctrl-alt-del does nothing, moving the mouse does nothing, so the only thing I
can do is power down and start again. When I restart I cannot figure out why
it crashed, nothing in the event log, no problem reports. Anyone else finding
similar problems?
 
C

Carey Frisch [MVP]

Adjust the Power Options located in the Control Panel.
By default, the monitor will enter "sleep" after ten minutes.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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| How do I determine what is causing this problem?
|
| In Beta 2 I had a problem where Vista would randomly die to a black screen
| (not blue screen). At this point I would just have to power down my machine.
| In RC1 (5600 and 5728) I did not experience this problem but instead I would
| get random blue screens (attributed to my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video driver).
| I upgraded to RC2 (5744) over the weekend and now the black screen of death
| has come back. Like in Beta 2, I will be using Vista and then all of a sudden
| the screen will turn black and the monitor goes into low power mode.
| ctrl-alt-del does nothing, moving the mouse does nothing, so the only thing I
| can do is power down and start again. When I restart I cannot figure out why
| it crashed, nothing in the event log, no problem reports. Anyone else finding
| similar problems?
 

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