TSGL: Big trouble - blinking screen

[jonpan]

Hi Tilman,

Do you have a system restore from before the time of initial installation of 
TVB? Or a DVD-backup?

Have you tried swapping the monitor?

My wife's monitor is momentarily 'blacking out' occasionally. So far, I've 
just changed the monitor, to no effect. I'm thinking about re-seating the 
graphic card, updating the driver, swapping the card...

Cheers,

John
Od/G




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tilman Brandl" <tbrandl2 at chello.at>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <List at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 1:33 AM
Subject: TSGL: Big trouble - blinking screen


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.

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