Screen goes black...

[Jesse B]

Hello
I would like to find out why my monitor randomly goes black for about 1
second every once in a while. I have a Gateway Pentium4 1.8 GHz with
XPHome, Nvidia GeForce3, 512 MB ram, updated drivers. It has been happening
for several months and if you ask me what I installed or did just before it
started, I couldn't tell you. If anyone can shed some light on this I would
greatly apperciate it.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Go to NVIDIA and look around for an updated driver. I have a Gateway and I've had to
update my driver twice.
There could have been another update...

 

[Jesse B]

Go to NVIDIA and look around for an updated driver. I have a Gateway and I've had to
update my driver twice.
There could have been another update...

I don't like to get the drivers from Nvidia because there is always a
problem, I get them from Microsoft after they have been certified so there
are no issues with them (please save your anti-Microsoft rants for someone
else, I've heard them all). I have updated the drivers twice since this has
started and there is no change.

 

[Jym]

This may not be a fix , but using MS video drivers is not the proper way to
go ! These drivers are generic in nature and do not contain the added
features that the card manufacture designed into the card and software. Get
the drivers from the manufacture and you will have less problems and your
display will work better. Just because it is from MS doesn't mean it is the
best. By the way , you monitor might be dying . Jym

 

[Jesse B]

This may not be a fix , but using MS video drivers is not the proper way to
go ! These drivers are generic in nature and do not contain the added
features that the card manufacture designed into the card and software. Get
the drivers from the manufacture and you will have less problems and your
display will work better. Just because it is from MS doesn't mean it is the
best. By the way , you monitor might be dying . Jym

Drivers are not the problem, I DL'd the latest WHQL certified from Nvidia
and the same thing is happening. I hope it is not the monitor dying, it is
not that old yet and I can't afford a new one.
--
Jesse B

"The November snow was thin and slushy - almost as if the angels in
Heaven were brushing their teeth and dribbling toothpaste over the
earth." - Mary Catherine Weir
_Son of "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night"_

 

[Guest]

Drivers are not the problem, I DL'd the latest WHQL certified from Nvidia
and the same thing is happening. I hope it is not the monitor dying, it is
not that old yet and I can't afford a new one.

Do what I always do when I have a questionable piece of hardware. Isolate the problem by placing the part in a currently functioning computer and see what happens. Again, replace the part with a good part from a good computer.
Often times swapping parts proves one thing or another.

 

[Jesse B]

Do what I always do when I have a questionable piece of hardware. Isolate the problem by placing the part in a currently functioning computer and see what happens. Again, replace the part with a good part from a good computer.
Often times swapping parts proves one thing or another.

I think I found the "problem" but I will have to wait a couple of hours to
verify the fix as it only occurs every hour or so. It may be the power
settings, as it was set to turn off the monitor after one hour. I had
thought that it worked the same as the screen saver, cutting off after the
last mouse or keyboard movement, but it may be that it cuts off regardless
of the usage at the time. Thanks for the effort though.

 

[Jesse B]

I think I found the "problem" but I will have to wait a couple of hours to
verify the fix as it only occurs every hour or so. It may be the power
settings, as it was set to turn off the monitor after one hour. I had
thought that it worked the same as the screen saver, cutting off after the
last mouse or keyboard movement, but it may be that it cuts off regardless
of the usage at the time. Thanks for the effort though.

Sorry, that wasn't it, the screen went blank again last night, this time
twice within 10 minutes, so I think the power scheme wasn't to blame after
all.

 

[Guest]

Will you please let me know what the solution to your problem was(if you were
able to repair the problem). I have been having the same difficulties with
my sceen, HP Pavilion ze4400 notebook.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Ive had the same problem. What happens to me is that i would click on
something (like a desktop icon), the screen will flash and then come back,
and it will keep doing that. I tried to to do a system restore that helped.
But then another problem arrised. I now cannot view ANY videos. The audio
works fine, but no video. dont know where to go from here.
System Specs:
Dell Dimension 8200 with Nvidia GeForce4 TI4600

 

[Guest]

Hi Guys,

I have had the same problem, it is very random, i could click on anything
and the screen's (Dual Display) goes black for a couple of seconds.
Before it used to freeze altogether, and i noticed that the IRQ's for sound,
video and network were sharing the same IRQ, after changing the IRQ's which
meant re-installing windows, i don't get a freeze but a blackout. However the
performance of the PC has greatly dropped.

Still looking for a solution to the problem, and looks like i might just
drop the video card.

system details:

2x AMD MP Processors 2.6Ghz each
1024mb RAM
80Gb HDD
nVidia 5700LE with 256mb ram

I suspect resourses have nothing to do with the problem, while have updated
the drivers a couple of times with no luck.

Regards,

Guch