I have had my laptop for a couple of months, and during this time my extra monitor has always been flickering when plugged in, something it has never done when plugged into another computer. It was annoying but something I could live with.
Now it has taken a turn for the worse, and once plugged in it works fine for ten seconds or so but then both monitors (the one plugged in and the laptopboth turn black), the extra monitors error message is signal out of range.
This happens regardless of drivers for my Nvidia card, Ive tried rolling back from 169 to 165, and the problem persists.
Assuming its hardware related, how long would a return take?
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try 167er drivers, they are for notebooks...
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To see if this is the problem, let your notebook run on batteries. Also search the forum since it's already covered.
About your monitors turning black, it might be due to overheating of the gpu (don't run your 6324 with the lid closed as the air intake is through the keyboard), I know that vista gives a blue screen of death if it is drivers.
But then again, you said it just happended recently, and is happening 10 sec into the startup (on second read, you might have meant 10 sec after connection the external to the laptop, but following point still stands), so my best guess is you have installed something lately, and when that starts up, it causes the video to go out of range.
Not knowing what os you are using, advice is limited. Nonetheless, windows has system restore points that might help you.
Assuming it's software related, how long would a clean install take -
I've got vista and considering a clean install regardless back to XP.
Downgrading drivers to 167 didn't work, and I don't think I have any third party crap interfering with the monitor shutting down (it and the main monitor both go black after plugging it in, so it's not heat problem).
I'll get back to you after the downgrade.
Problems with extra monitor for Znote 6324
Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by shallowgrave, Jan 9, 2008.