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    A little off-topic but need help.

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by vinceh, Apr 26, 2009.

  1. vinceh

    vinceh Notebook Geek

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    Alright, this post has nothing to do with Sager, but since I know that the people in this forum have really good computer based knowledge, I'm going to try my question out here.

    I own a desktop that has been doing something really strange lately (for the past week). My monitor will go black basically right when any type of "animation" starts. Whether it be the msn flashing message thing, trying to play Warcraft 3, or even just watching youtube videos. The black out will either happen for a split second, or stay that way until it randomly becomes better. Now when I mean my monitor goes black, I don't mean that it goes into standby, it seems that my video card is rendering it to be black. And when it goes black, my computer still runs normally. Now I've tried everything. System restore, reformatting, using various versions of my drivers, checking my hardware, and it STILL blacks out. Now what I'm thinking is that there's a hardware problem somewhere that I just can't see, but there's something that's very interesting.

    I have Linux on my computer, and when I use it, it does NOT black out, no matter what. I can watch videos, do anything I want and nothing will happen. I don't have a lot of knowledge in Linux so I don't understand why this is happening. Does anyone have any slight clue to what it might be?

    Thanks,

    Vin
     
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    bbCan Notebook Guru

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    What linux do you have on your computer? Did you try to reinstall the video driver under windows? BTW, OS?
     
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    X2P COOLING | NBR Super Mod

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    X2P, Apr 26, 2009
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