Monitor Will Randomly Go Black
Replies: 12 | Post Date: 01-22-2007, 04:24 PM | User: Xeroz0rz | Forums: hardforum.comThe problem that is occurring is when i play wow, my monitor will randomly go black, but my computer stay on. All of the sound and background apps such as ventrilo will cease, and i am forced to restart my computer via the restart switch. This started occurring a few months ago, but it went away. Unfortunately it is back again. I've already restarted my computer about 6 times in the past hour, and have tried a lot of things including resetting the cmos, re-seating both my ram and video card, even changing some bios settings, all of which didn't do anything. I haven't tried any other games then wow, but i'll start up bf2142 or cs:s and see if it does it. I'm not certain as to what would be causing this "black screen" to occur. Maybe it could be the power supply? Ram? I've already determined it's not the video card, as i put my old 6800 in, and it still occurred. What's weird is that i just got burning crusade, and i played it all last weekend from friday - sunday with no problems.
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Monitor Randomly Refreshes
I got a envision monitor and it randomly refreshes now at like 1 every second so i cant really so anything. The refresh rates are fine and the screen works when vga cables not plugged in ( displays error without refresh). The power button doesn't work after it starts refreshing multiple times.
Posted On: April 9th 2007 . View 4 Replies .
I got a envision monitor and it randomly refreshes now at like 1 every second so i cant really so anything. The refresh rates are fine and the screen works when vga cables not plugged in ( displays error without refresh). The power button doesn't work after it starts refreshing multiple times.
Posted On: April 9th 2007 . View 4 Replies .
Monitor Goes Black At Random
Ive read sooo many different posts like this one but couldn't get any help. Basically it only happens when im playing games, but only certain games like world of warcraft, warcraft 3, flyff and others. However when i play games like counter strike 1. 6 it works fine i could be on for over 12 hours ( ppl say my comp over heats, so i don't think that the prob. ) I recently bought a new 21" lg monitor and +2g of ram making it 3g. *When it dose go black it makes a loud static noise it comes in may different sounds witch is really weird to me. Also i have head phones and when i take in them witch is what i do when it stops n the middle of something important i can hear myself through my headphones. Also it doesn't always go black it might just stop i cant really explain it more then that.
Posted On: October 12th, 2007, 07:04 PM . View 14 Replies .
Ive read sooo many different posts like this one but couldn't get any help. Basically it only happens when im playing games, but only certain games like world of warcraft, warcraft 3, flyff and others. However when i play games like counter strike 1. 6 it works fine i could be on for over 12 hours ( ppl say my comp over heats, so i don't think that the prob. ) I recently bought a new 21" lg monitor and +2g of ram making it 3g. *When it dose go black it makes a loud static noise it comes in may different sounds witch is really weird to me. Also i have head phones and when i take in them witch is what i do when it stops n the middle of something important i can hear myself through my headphones. Also it doesn't always go black it might just stop i cant really explain it more then that.
Posted On: October 12th, 2007, 07:04 PM . View 14 Replies .
Usb Cause Monitor To Go Black
Sometimes, when i plug a usb device into my front usb ports on my case, it will cause my monitor to just go black. The blue power light will stay on, but the screen will just stay black until i reboot. Turning the monitor on and off seems to do nothing. Another interesting point about this is that the usb plug doesn't even need to be fully plugged in to make the monitor go black. All that it needs is for the metal to touch anywhere near the usb port to cause the monitor to go black. My second issue is not really that big of an issue, but still an annoyance. When there is a usb device plugged into my computer during boot-up (normally a wd external hdd), it will usually (if not always) cause the boot-up process to freeze on the motherboard display screen (i can't recall if this is before or after post, but somewhere in this time frame). So i just get stuck looking a big gigabyte n-series screen infinitely until i remove the usb device and try rebooting again. Any tips or suggestions to either of these problems is welcomed.
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Posted On: 01-12-2010, 04:59 PM . View 1 Replies .
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Posted On: 12-27-2009, 08:08 PM . View 4 Replies .
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Posted On: 12-27-2009, 08:08 PM . View 4 Replies .
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Posted On: February 14th 2009 . View 4 Replies .
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Posted On: 13-07-2007, 12:38 PM . View 8 Replies .
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Posted On: July 20th 2008 . View 14 Replies .
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Posted On: 06-09-2005, 12:00 AM . View 1 Replies .
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Posted On: October 11th, 2006, 12:22 AM . View 5 Replies .
Computer Keeps Randomly Locking Up
I can be surfing the internet or listening to music and my computer keeps randomly locks up and when it does it i have to switch it off at the mains and back on again. I have tried removing the cmos battery, reinstalling windows. I have also tried a new power supply but still it makes no difference.
Posted On: June 17th, 2007, 01:42 PM . View 8 Replies .
I can be surfing the internet or listening to music and my computer keeps randomly locks up and when it does it i have to switch it off at the mains and back on again. I have tried removing the cmos battery, reinstalling windows. I have also tried a new power supply but still it makes no difference.
Posted On: June 17th, 2007, 01:42 PM . View 8 Replies .
Computer Randomly Turns On
My comp is possesed. (You would know if you have seen some of the other problems i have with this comp too)
So my computer more or less randomly turns on during the day or night. Sometimes when i get home from school it is on (nobody uses it, and the screen is like it should be when it first turns on)
Sometimes when i wake up in the morning it is on. The only partial logical explination i came up with is that sometimes when i turn stuff on such as my bedside lamp it will turn on. Im thinking this has somthing to do with. I dunno. A small surg of power going into the comp when turning the lamp off making the comp turn on. Only problem with that is that my comp is plugged into a battery. Also somtimes it will randomly turn on when i walk by it. Is my computer possesed?
Posted On: May 7th, 2005, 12:05 PM . View 9 Replies .
My comp is possesed. (You would know if you have seen some of the other problems i have with this comp too)
So my computer more or less randomly turns on during the day or night. Sometimes when i get home from school it is on (nobody uses it, and the screen is like it should be when it first turns on)
Sometimes when i wake up in the morning it is on. The only partial logical explination i came up with is that sometimes when i turn stuff on such as my bedside lamp it will turn on. Im thinking this has somthing to do with. I dunno. A small surg of power going into the comp when turning the lamp off making the comp turn on. Only problem with that is that my comp is plugged into a battery. Also somtimes it will randomly turn on when i walk by it. Is my computer possesed?
Posted On: May 7th, 2005, 12:05 PM . View 9 Replies .
Computer Is Randomly Rebooting Itself
I was using my comp all day today with no problems. I started up eq2, and was ending some tasks which i always do. Now my computer is randomly rebooting itself constantly for the past 15 minutes, making a beep when it does. Any idea what the *** is going on with it?
Posted On: June 25th, 2005, 08:59 PM . View 12 Replies .
I was using my comp all day today with no problems. I started up eq2, and was ending some tasks which i always do. Now my computer is randomly rebooting itself constantly for the past 15 minutes, making a beep when it does. Any idea what the *** is going on with it?
Posted On: June 25th, 2005, 08:59 PM . View 12 Replies .
System Randomly Reboots Itself
System randomly reboots itself. Have replaced almost every part aside from vid card. Doubt vid card is the problem, works fine on another system.
Posted On: December 1st, 2003, 08:51 PM . View 14 Replies .
System randomly reboots itself. Have replaced almost every part aside from vid card. Doubt vid card is the problem, works fine on another system.
Posted On: December 1st, 2003, 08:51 PM . View 14 Replies .
Pc Keeps Rebooting And Randomly Locking Up
I've got a friend that i built a pc for. It now keeps rebooting and randomly locking up. It usually locks up while gaming, but has recently begun this while not gaming. We brought the thing to our office, where it did not lock up during over an hour of gaming and benchmarking. By taking it to another location, i have narrowed the problem to either the monitor, or the outlet the thing is plugged into. Question is, has anyone ever seen a monitor or bad outlet cause a pc to behave like this?
Posted On: June 3rd 2005 . View 14 Replies .
I've got a friend that i built a pc for. It now keeps rebooting and randomly locking up. It usually locks up while gaming, but has recently begun this while not gaming. We brought the thing to our office, where it did not lock up during over an hour of gaming and benchmarking. By taking it to another location, i have narrowed the problem to either the monitor, or the outlet the thing is plugged into. Question is, has anyone ever seen a monitor or bad outlet cause a pc to behave like this?
Posted On: June 3rd 2005 . View 14 Replies .
Internet Randomly Disconnects
My internet randomly disconnects? I used windows vista on my toshiba satellite laptop. Normally when i put the cursor over the internet icon at the bottom right corner it says "access: local and internet" (that's when internet works). But when my internet disconnects it goes to "access: local only" and i lose my connection. These disconnections usually last about 30sec but once it lasted up to 10-20min. Sometimes this occurs quite frequent, like once every minute. I know this isn't my isp's problem since my dad's laptop's (he uses xp) internet works fine. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
Posted On: 2 months ago . View 2 Replies .
My internet randomly disconnects? I used windows vista on my toshiba satellite laptop. Normally when i put the cursor over the internet icon at the bottom right corner it says "access: local and internet" (that's when internet works). But when my internet disconnects it goes to "access: local only" and i lose my connection. These disconnections usually last about 30sec but once it lasted up to 10-20min. Sometimes this occurs quite frequent, like once every minute. I know this isn't my isp's problem since my dad's laptop's (he uses xp) internet works fine. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
Posted On: 2 months ago . View 2 Replies .