TSGL: Big trouble - blinking screen

[jonpan]

Hi Tilman,

On the subject of RAM, you might try setting the BIOS to safe defaults 
first, after noting the settings you normally use.

Nein, hier friert es kaum, höchstens zwei- dreimal über Nacht. Zurzeit gegen 
13.00 Uhr, haben wir 13°C, trocken und bedeckt.

Grüße.

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 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Big trouble - blinking screen


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.
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