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    External Monitor Going Black (gfx card dying?)

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by gt725, Dec 19, 2014.

  1. gt725

    gt725 Newbie

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    I have an external monitor hooked up via HDMI to my laptop. Recently it has started briefly turning black for a few seconds. The power light is still on, but there is no sound from the speakers which are connected through HDMI. Before this happens sometimes there is a pink horizontal line that appears on the screen for one second. My laptop screen does not go black, and this does not happen if the game is being run on the laptop screen whether or not the external monitor is connected.This only happens when playing a demanding game or program (such as Furmark) but not videos. I may have switched the refresh rate from 59p to 60p before those but changing it back has not fixed this problem. I have also tried updating the graphics card driver which did not work.
     
    gt725, Dec 19, 2014
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    yup looks like a dying GPU to me...
     
    TomJGX, Dec 19, 2014
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