One other thing that came to mind. I had had serious problems with my video on my old computer. When I bought the new one (through a local shop) I was able to be in the work area as they were setting it up. One of the problems that they found on the new machine was that the operating system had placed the video card on the same IRQ as another. The tech setting it up said that this is often one of the more common occurances of problems if the video card shares any other IRQ. In MSINFO32, you can see what the IRQ settings are and double check to make sure that nothing else is sharing that one.
Keith Thomposn Tom Phillips wrote: > > Linh > > Try swapping the monitor for a known good one before making a decision. It > could be the monitor, video card or drivers. I've had a similar situation > where the screen would go black on a system with win98 se. The fix was to > reboot. I swapped the monitor and the problem persisted. Replaced the video > card and the problem went away. I thought the video card was bad. That > same video card is now running fine with no symptoms on a new system. Best > conclusion I have is that the video card edge connector or mother board > video card socket were dirty, or the video card was poorly seated. It could > have been drivers the new system is running Win XP with different drivers. > So swap the parts and check, clean, the connections carefully before > spending money. > > t0m > > > Linh: > > If the screen goes crazy for an instant along > > with the blackout, it could be an internal arc of the > > high voltage circuitry. This could be caused by a > > collection of dust inside the monitor or the circuitry > > just aging. > > > > Many monitors go blank when they do not > > receive a signal from the computer. If this is your > > problem, it could be caused by a bad monitor cable > > or a bad or loose connection. It could also be caused > > by an intermittent video board or cpu. > > > > If you can borrow a monitor to try. This would > > let you know if the problem is with your monitor. > > Good luck, Wally > > > >> > Hi everybody, > > > When I work at the computer, the monitor screen sometimes suddenly > > > blackens > > > for one or two seconds then returns by itself to normal. This > > > happens five > > > or six times during a working session of two hours. The monitor, > > > made in > > > Asia, is four years old. What could be the causes for this? What > > > should I > > > do? > > > I am running Win 95B, Pentium 200 Mhz, 82 MB RAM. > > > Thank you very much in advance for your help. > > > With best regards, > > > Linh (first name, Vietnamese) -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson Help Page: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Anything worth doing, is worth doing for a profit. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
