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At absolutely random intervals, my computer screen will turn off. It's not sleep mode, or anything like that. Once or twice I've shaken the mouse to have it jump back to life, but that's it. I'll usually have to turn it off and restart the entire thing. Also, the main computer will stay on, and the monitor's light (the one that tells you if it's on) will stay lit. Help?
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old monitors all made before mid year 2010
are all CCFL backlamps and most died 5 year old
10/hr. per day and EOL hits..end of life.
the problems is not the cure we well know the problem is econ101
spending $200 to fix a $20 dead (sold for parts0 monitor is bad econ.
see page 5, here
CCFL *****
this what they all did long ago, if actually used heavy
CCF go dim
go intermittent. (PURE RANDOM) 'Ionization is tricky""
goES dead
goed dead only hot or cold (yours fails warm)
goes yellow tinged for pure white.
IF 2 TUBE BANK OR UTUBES, 1/2 GOES DEAD.
RIP one more of millions now dead, most are, unless hanger queened (nos) or was in sleep mode most of itS life,
at 20k hours of real use they die. (MEANS GLOWING)
This might sound a little stupid, but 1 is it plugged in when you put it sleep mode, and when u open the screen do you physically have to turn it back on. Sometimes when you put a computer in "sleep mode" and its not plugged in you lose power slowly
Check your power options in your control panel - default is usually 20 minutes to put monitor to sleep - you can adjust the time there. The monitor itself does not usually have this as a function so I would start there first.
turning off all the power saving items does not help this- it just ensures that it doesn't automatically power down your hard drive or shut off power to your monitor automatically when you aren't using it.
May I suggest Hibernation Mode as an alternative? this mode saves everything you are doing to disc and shuts your computer down completely. when you turn it back on, it will restore what you were last doing onto the screen, so you can pick up where you left off.
you can find more information on this and sleep mode from here: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/335c6a5d-0304-4af1-b135-6bf6c124dc111033.mspx#EZAAC
I too have a dual monitor Samsung SyncMaster 204 setup. My monitors started flickering, then a week later had turn on problems like your describe. I found a fix on this fixya website and followed the fairly techie suggestion. It worked. I wrote up a .pdf set of instructions so others might also benefit. Hope this helps. Doug
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