The monitor will go blank all of a sudden

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Hello,

I have a Philips monitor and a windowsxp system.

The monitor from time to time will go blank all of a sudden while I'm in the
middle of doing something. Nothing can be done to get the display back.
However, if I leave it this way for an indefinite while, the screen may
resume normal display again. There's nothing I can do myself to gain the
display back apart from rebooting.

So what's wrong with my pc? What can I do?

Herbert

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Herbert:
It is possible you have a bad solder connection on the main
circuit board. The next time it happens, I would give the sides
of the monitor a good slap with my open hand.
If the picture comes right back, it is caused by a bad solder
connection. Time to resolder a questionable connections on the
board.
Hope this helps...
John

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Will using a very high resolution be a problem? I've been using 1280x
something before with Win98se without problems. This problem seems to
happen after the upgrade to XP.

Herbert

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> Try running some logical tests. First try using a different monitor with
> your computer to see if the monitor or the the video card is bad.
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> DaveW
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> "Herbert Chan" <herbert@chan.com> wrote in message
> news:41a5eb68_1@rain.i-cable.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a Philips monitor and a windowsxp system.
> >
> > The monitor from time to time will go blank all of a sudden while I'm in
> > the
> > middle of doing something. Nothing can be done to get the display back.
> > However, if I leave it this way for an indefinite while, the screen may
> > resume normal display again. There's nothing I can do myself to gain
the
> > display back apart from rebooting.
> >
> > So what's wrong with my pc? What can I do?
> >
> > Herbert
> >
> >
>
>