TSGL: Big trouble - blinking screen

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi,

I'm having big trouble. My ssreen sometimes starts blinking between normal display and (mainly) being black only. The black periods tend to grow longer over time...

It all started with a program I'm using since some time, TV Browser - TVB. Recently it began this blinking action and eventually froze my whole PC - only restore brought it to reboot and back to live. 

When I asked people at the forum for TVB they said: check 1. graphic card drivers 2. Java, 3. RAM

Meanwhile I've tried to uninstall older JRE versions,  which didn't work out correctly so I ended up removing 2 versions using MS Windows Installer Cleanup. Then I uninstalled the latest version and reinstalled it - jre 1.6.0_03.

Since then things are quiet sofar, but start again as soon as I look at the Java settings under control panel - screen goes blank=black in about 5 seconds, so I always finish playing around that way. All is well as soon as the dialog is closed ... And of course - everything is in upheaval when I try to start TVB - which is a Java application AFAIK. Just tried it a last time, took a reset again ...

Guess I'll try and test RAM tomorrow (but - shouldn't there be more indications if there were any problems? And I could reinstall the graphics drivers too.

If none of these make things any better I'll perhaps try a system restore (or system repair?)

Any other ideas anybody?

TYVMIA
Tilman

Win XP sp2 + most updates; AVG + ZA.