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by: richlaxt September 2, 2012 7:57 AM PDT

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by richlaxt - 9/2/12 7:57 AM

I got a bit of a problem,,,,,,,,,,,

Here's my present scenario..........I can be rocking along reading and the monitor just goes black but will come back in a few seconds if I tap on the space bar.If I am actively doing something this doesn't happen.

If I don't tap on the space bar after a time I will get a dialog box that says the DISPLAY DRIVER has quit working but has corrected it'sself ,,,,, a cuss word or two and a space bar tap always gives it a temporary fix.

Whats going on with this and is there a permanent fix?

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by R. Proffitt Moderator - 9/2/12 8:00 AM

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It's a shame the machine details are not supplied. I usually find this to be an issue if the owner has updated a video driver from Microsoft so without any details about the PC I can only write about the most common issue which I fix by going back to when it worked.
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Re: black screen

by Kees_B Moderator - 9/2/12 8:08 AM

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Your 'present scenario' seems to be a setting in Control Panel>Power Options settings, as described in
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms700612%28v=vs.85%29.aspx.

And the issue about the display driver failure seems to be that it doesn't handle the return from that situation correctly. I'd go back to when it still worked (as Bob says), or see if an updated driver is available for your video card at the makers site.

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by richlaxt - 9/2/12 11:18 AM

In Reply to: Re: black screen by Kees_B Moderator

Restore,then found a windows update for monitor display,,,,working great


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