TSGL: Big trouble - blinking screen

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi John,

Thanks for your ideas! 
I guess there are restore points that I could use ... and I have acronis images of my system partition too. They all would make sense in case this were a software thing.

Before that I'll check RAM, it could be behind this. And of course also the graphics drivers. The device is on-board, so no problem with seating + contacts. 

Initially I thought it was the KVM switch I have which connects 2 PCs to monitor, keyboard + mouse. It wasn't though ... things are scary without the switch too ;-(

Aaaaaaargh !

Cheers
Tilman
Friert es schon im Odenwald? Im Wienerwald hat's noch um die 12 Grad C ...

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jonpan 
  To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List 
  Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 9:25 AM
  Subject: Re: TSGL: Big trouble - blinking screen


  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.