Why do I get a black screen on my computer after a while?

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norton antivirus was causing black screen & not letting me to restoe my computer to the earlier date:After I uninstalled my norton antivirus by going to symantec (noton) website and using their removal tools (I could not remove it by using add or remove) was able to restore my computer to the earlier date immediately and it has been one month I haven,t had any black screen. so,either norton boosts the existing problem of the computer or causing the blackscreen by its own interaction.you can try it if your computer is using norton. Increasing,ram did not help very long ,but I think one month of normal screen would be enough to judge my attempt.

im just wondering how i get an internet site off my deskop its stuck on the background and i cant get it off was just wondering if anyone could please help me out its realy frustrating.

Hi.On my 2004 XP Packardbell,I am getting the oppoite of the above problem. Instead of getting a Black screen after 5to15 mins afgter boot,mine starts as soon as ithas fully booted.I have put up with it for around 2months but it seems to be getting very gradually worse.It goes Black on all but a small handful of movements and clickings of the mouse.Their is also a horizontal flickering associated with this problem.After a while,however, itsometimes improves but is generally unpredictable. I did once notice an improvement after using checkdisk and recovery of bad cluster utility and defragmenting. However it advised me to defrag ontwo occasions only a month apart so I have been ignoring this having been told that over defragging can seriously harm the hard drive.
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why i get a black screen on my coputer after a while is this a monitor or computer problem

For me my computer is seriously restarting it's self every after 30 minutes.I have checked fr the screen saver settings but there is nothing to do with it,i really need your help coz am an internet cafe attendant my customers are running away from me.I really don't know what to do.Yours concerned citeezen from Uganda.

My Toshiba laptop screen was jittery for about a day but still working fine. I turned it off and turned it on after a few hours, after I clicked the USER NAME, the laptop screen went black, but I still could hear the computer working, so I hooked the Toshiba laptop up with my big old Dell desk top screen and the screen WORKED!. Seem like my laptop monitor is dead, though I can still faintly see the screen's data... it's like the laptop screen is 95% balck. Any idea what, if anything, I can do to fix this. Thanks!

Hi, my computer screen turns off when it wants, meaning it turns black. The monitor is still on. I've changed the screensaver, and that's not it. I've scanned for a virus, and I don't have one. I've done everything else on the list (except change monitors, because I don't just have a spare monitor lying around) is there anytihng else you can suggest? Thanks!

i grt the black screen after about 5 mins i tried taking all cards out .it has a new hard drive.i tried taking out the ram and the fan is seated ok.please can someone help

i turn my laptop and all i get is just a black screen with an little line on the top right corner which looks like this - could it be that my hard drive is broken

hi i have a toshiba satellite A215-S7416 laptop. i had a problem with the computer screen going black and the computer had to be rebooted. through research it appears that there are some problems with some toshiba's. i hope toshiba is working on it. a workaround recommended to me seems to work(so far).it is to raise the MINIMUM power setting to 100%. i talked to toshiba and they didnt help any. is there a permanent fix in the near future? thank you

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