Need help to fix screen flash

wjh

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Jul 19, 2004
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Please help me troubleshoot and fix this strange video problem. Every few minutes the monitor will flash-- the screen becomes completely dark for around one second and then returns to normal. this happens once or twice then everything is normal until the same thing happens a few minutes later. There is no apparent damage done, everything seems to work normally before and after the flashing.

My System: Win XP Pro sp2 + all hotfixes, FX-55, Vantec Stealth 520 Wt PS, MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum MoBo (MS-7025) Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG, 2 X 512 MB OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev. 2 RAM, Gainward GeForce 6800 GT Golden Sample normal settings, SB Audigy2 ZS, 160 GB SATA and 120 GB PATA HDDs, Dual Monitors 21" Triniton Tube CRT and 20" LCD.

Prime 95 - Stable Overnight, 3D Mark 05 - 4918 (avg of 5 runs) BTW -- Would I see much performance increase by going to 4 X 512 MB of RAM? If I did this, should I get more of the same RAM? ( the Rev. 2).

Thank You!

Best,
Walter.
 

Crashman

Polypheme
Former Staff
My monitor did that from heat, the solution was to lower the refresh rate.

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