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robertmkmd

Post subject: screen 'blinks'

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:26 pm

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my monitor has been 'blinking' of late; it will spontaneously go black and often reboot, without any indication anything else is wrong??? I have not installed anything new and am running:
win xp professional sp2
athlon 1gig (yes, I know it's ancient)
abit KT7-RAID mobo (stop laughing, it gets me sympathy!!)
512M memory
Radeon 9500 Pro/ 9700 vid card with 128M
Radius monitor
I have the latest drivers for the mobo, vid card, etc.

You guys are great! Any advice (other than junking the sucker) will be appreciated! :oops:

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keymaker

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Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:09 pm

Northwood

Joined: Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:38 pm
Posts: 2583
Location: Room112

how old is your monitor? if its pretty old, yeah it could be time to get a new monitor whether you like it or not. one thing you can do is use a spare monitor on your computer and see if it does the same thing. if the spare monitor goes, then it could be an issue with the videocard. good luck

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whitecree

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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:18 am

Smithfield

Joined: Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:17 pm
Posts: 5315
Location: northwest BC

Check that your refresh rate isn't higher than what the monitor can handle.

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tuathal

Post subject: Re: screen 'blinks'

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:11 am

Notched on both sides

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robertmkmd wrote:

You say that the screen starts blinking then you talk about a reboot...
Is the issue with the monitor restarting... or with the system restarting...

If the system is restarting - it might have nothing to do with your monitor - that might simply be a result of the other...

Also - did it happen prior to SP2?

Tuathal

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