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Monitor randomly goes black for one second at a time
I have a relatively new monitor and computer system (bought May 2003) and in the past few months, the monitor will go completely black for about one second and then come back on randomly throughout the day.
It will do this completely randomly and sometimes will not occur at all for a week or so, but then without warning, will start up again, going black many times throughout the day. The diagnostic lights are all on green normally, and since the screen goes black for only one second, I don't have time to check the tower while the monitor screen is black.
The power light stays solid green with no change when the monitor goes black.
I've checked the cord connecting the monitor to the tower and it's as secure as I can push it in on both ends. A friend recommended that I get a new cord (he said it would the "HD15 (plug) SVGA monitor cable"), but I wasn't able to find anything like that on the Dell website.
Does anybody have any suggestions for what could be causing this problem, and how I can fix it?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I'll try it, but when this first started happening to me, I called Tech Support, and they told me to do that, and maybe for a month or so, I didn't have any problems, but then it started up again.
So if that's a solution, then it's only a temporary one.
- I have the same issue. Contacted Dell support. I was also told to reset my monitor to factory defaults. Did this, it did not help. I've also reinstalled my video driver & monitor driver. Turned off all power save features and screen saver. My computer is less than a month old. Have you been able to find an answer?
- I have the same Problem with my monitor, I called and called and called Tech support try fixing Display tried everything they even told me I need to put on a screen saver I got so fed up with Tech support I told them I want a new tower cause I really think It is some how a tower issue not a monitor one,Well after almost to weeks of calling Tech support. I called again and spoke to customer service and demanded a Tower exchange. I figure it must be a conflict with something or maybe my tower cant handle the monito. I have a Dimension 4600,120 gb hard drive,256 mb of ram with a 128mb DDR NVIDIA GEFORCE FX 5200, 17inch lcd flat monitor (w1700).
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Posted February 29th, 2004 01:00