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Comment from Ivan on 2011-11-28

2011-11-28T21:47:45Z

Leo's general comment that "there are many possibilities" is very true! I will tell share my findings re: laptops. I have had several on my test bench that exibited the same black screen symptom. The first was my daughters Acer. I found the processor cooling duct PACKED with lint. Since that fix (cleaned the duct) the unit has been working another 2 years. This problem was found on others. No surprise, as they spend much time on someone's lap sucking in lint. I recommend a cooler but settle for a small board large enough for the computer and mouse, if used. A secondary benefit is a cooler lap!
The second problem seen was the Heat Pipe contact on the processor. It was on a less than 1 year old Acer. The contact area was NOT Cleaned in original factory assembly. It required a new mb, cleaning the heat pipe contact and Artic Silver compound.
HEAT IS THE NEMISIS OF ALL COMPUTERS which includes desktops!

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Comment from shannon on 2011-11-28

2011-11-28T21:36:47Z

my pc seems to have a problem.. which im quite sure is caused either by my motherboard or PS unit.. da pc screen goes off an da pc becomes unresponsive.. yet da pc lights are stil on.. iv tried watchn movies or listenin to music.. and b4 evrythin goes blank.. da screen freezes an sound distorts.. i know it isn't over heatn because the temp readins always have remaind under 40C.. i need help diagnosin wats wrong to no wat needs replacing

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Comment from bobbie on 2011-11-09

2011-11-10T01:09:42Z

My pc just started doing this today...However, it is fine as long as I am just on internet explorer, etc...When I play my games online, that is when (after roughly half an hour of play) the screen goes black, though the computer is still running. The entire computer is brand new, minus the 2 slave drives which are from my old computer. The motherboard, video cards, heat sinc, etc...are all new. Is it time to replace the monitor? (again, working fine as long as I don't bring the games up)

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Comment from Pat Boyd on 2011-09-05

2011-09-05T21:30:34Z

My computer started going to black screen after Time/Warner advised they were giving Roadrunner customers 40% more speed free and all I had to do was disconnect power to the modem for 30 seconds. I don't know if this was just a coincidence that it happened at this time or if it was connected to adding the speed. When the screen goes black on my PC, it will come back up fine when I turn off and back on. It doesn't seem to go black until I have left it on idle for some time. It appears everyone here is talking about laptops. Would the solutions be the same for a PC? Thanks.

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Comment from NIYAN GHADGE on 2011-06-23

2011-06-23T13:11:09Z

I think i have a answer to this the problem in my case was cracking of the windows code after installation/ formatting with windows 7.My Hardware guy came with his hard disk attached the hard disk to my USB port and simply put the code in the control panel and restarted the laptop twice. it was done in minutes. and i was rid of three problems error message when starting for genuine windows software, build 7000 error message in the right bottom corner and black screen. please think twice before formatting or viral attacks.

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Comment from maverick on 2011-01-21

2011-01-21T22:49:11Z

Hey i was wondering how do i get to display portion of my control panel? i searched it in there
but it said no results?

Depends on your version of Windows. Don't use search, open control panel directly and browse through the available entries.

22-Jan-2011

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Comment from Gary B on 2011-01-11

2011-01-11T08:00:02Z

I was having the same problem that i read here and could not solve that for a very long time.

I have a qosmio from Toshiba and i always used to give me the black screen of death and i was really frustrated.

I read in the comments from a guy called LordNOD that there is a website called www.fixmyqosmio.com

It has a solution and i tried it (yes i risked sending 15 bucks to the guy) And it worked! Saved me a bundle of money! Toshibas asked for $1200 to fix it and he did it in 15. Totally worth it

Do test it out as i was glad i did (an no no one paid me or asked me to do this! I thought i should share my good fortune with others and prevent people from wasting hard earned cash in these hard times)

Gary

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Comment from Samareanu Nicolae on 2010-10-02

2010-10-02T08:16:49Z

Read the tread howeva my isue is that i only get a black screen in games even while runing in window mode and the time for em its completely random can be 1 min can be 3 hours so dont think its overheating the grafix board is a 9500 gt low power version

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Comment from LordNOD on 2010-09-17

2010-09-17T13:15:13Z

Hi!

I have gone through the same problem (on multiple games including SC2, MW2, ArmaII, etc) and i believe i am familiar with it.

Qosmio crashing during games (even freecell) with a black screen and loopy sound from the speakers. Solved only with a hard reset. Problem does not happen if you are running off the battery.

I believe i might have a solution. I have seen the problem crop up across the board on all Qosmio laptops (including my own X300) and i eventually did quite a lot of research and found out a solution.

The problem really pertains to fixing the clock frequencies between the GPU and the CPU and that caused all the problems. They apparently loose sync with each other at variable speeds due to a bug in the power management.

The detailed explanation and solution are on http://www.fixmyqosmio.com and you can check out the writeup there.

It worked for me and it has worked for over 100 other people who have liked it and used it. !!Warning!! it is a COMMERCIAL solution (although it has a 100% refund guarantee) so dont go to the site unless you want to.

I am not soliciting for business. just letting you know that there IS a way to solve the problem and Toshiba are either not concerned or unable to solve the problem. Please dont make the mistake that i made (taking my out of warranty laptop to toshiba) and paying for servicing it.

The service center cant help as it just DOES NOT KNOW how to solve the problem. They service it and hope for the best.

Hope that was some help

LordNOD

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Comment from indrajeet on 2010-08-14

2010-08-14T10:41:36Z

While working on my computer my screen suddenly goes black and moniter stopped displaying but cpu is still running and cpu not respond.

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Comment from Connor Currie on 2010-07-15

2010-07-15T17:34:17Z

I find myself playing a game on the computer. and my screen randomly goes black, and forces me to restart the whole computer. it is driving me nuts any help would be appericated. email me if helpful

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Comment from Sharon Soboleski on 2010-05-28

2010-05-28T21:12:08Z

While working on my computer my screen suddenly goes black and turn everything off, my internet connection is a usb port, I am in the country and not wireless is available to me

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Comment from Wilson on 2010-03-20

2010-03-21T05:11:23Z

I have the exact same problem and I have found that its my video card overheating. My vid card is GS 8800 on a wins xp. I had the same computer and same configuration/settings for 2 years. It just recently started overheating. What are some ways to fix this overheating issue? Do i need a new card? And I went to that one screeen that tells me my temperature and my vid card was extremely high. Forgot how high but quite high. So that confirms the overheating of my vid card. Please email me for solution thanks.

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Comment from Wyn Halpin on 2010-02-06

2010-02-06T17:24:58Z

I recently purchase a Toshiba Satellite Laptop and I noticed when my Laptop was idle for a while the display went blank. This happened every time it was idle. I have now rectified the cause. First go into Control Panel, click on Performance Information & Tools, this takes you to Rate & Improve your Computer's Performance, then click Adust Power Settings, this takes you to Power Plan and then click Choose when to turn off the Display, this takes you to Change settings for the plan, and choose which option suits you, I chose "Never". Hope this info. helps.

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Comment from lindot1 on 2010-01-25

2010-01-25T21:54:50Z

my screen would go to sleep on my laptop while watching videos, but I had audio. I have a new desktop and for the 1st week it was ok. Now it does the same thing, only I don't have audio. I wiggle the mouse, it comes back on, what to do?

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Comment from erasmus on 2010-01-09

2010-01-09T09:19:21Z

what is dumping memory?

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Comment from Chris on 2010-01-07

2010-01-08T01:54:54Z

I've just bought a new Thinkpad R61 because of an intermittent black screen ... and now my old T30 Thinkpad has decided to work again!! I've just updated some Drivers, but I'm not convinced it's the fix. Anyway, we'll see.

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Comment from Soni on 2009-12-26

2009-12-26T17:14:10Z

Whenever I watch a video from an email or on Facebook, my computer screen goes black. I have to keep turning the screen on & off. What makes this happen?

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Comment from Nigel Chee on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T12:08:30Z

My HP laptop- whilst streaming video suddenly went black- followed by about 5 beeps from the computer itself. The HDD light seems to be out too. I've tried rebooting but nothing but black and beeps. No hint of the machine attempting a boot up. Is it most likely the HDD has died?

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Comment from George Fuhrmann on 2009-09-09

2009-09-10T04:40:37Z

Laptop, in car, hit a bump screen goes black. I can not force the problem by hitting anything.
However this happens only if the brightness is on max. I take it back it passes. *The bumps.( Sometimes a see little flickering. Maybe not enough power, but how why where?

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Comment from Kate on 2009-07-09

2009-07-09T13:36:35Z

Whenever we play a video on any of the media players (WMP, RP...) the screen flashes from black back to the video. (Watching a video on Youtube is not a problem). What could be doing this? I need to get this fixed as I need it for school.
Thanks!

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Comment from amit on 2009-06-10

2009-06-10T09:51:06Z

screen being blank while opening any application, e.g. pp stream and many others like this. this problem started from the time i rated my computer in vista and now in windows7 also i've laptop hp v 3432 au

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Comment from Daz on 2009-05-29

2009-05-29T20:48:03Z

Similar problem: I get a constant black screen on my computer with a normal icons display. I use the computer alright but anytime i try to change the background it appears black but behind the black background i could see the set up screensaver. when I scrol up it appears nicely but soon after i scrol down it comes back to black screen. Please can u help me

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Comment from Charles on 2009-04-12

2009-04-12T14:01:05Z

when I go to change s/n i get a blue screen. outside of that everything works fine

"s/n"?

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Comment from Mira-chan on 2009-04-01

2009-04-02T02:02:18Z

I have a Phoenix monitor, and it's roughly two years old. I turned it on yesterday (April Fools' Day--Conflicker worm?), and it's been automatically restarting ever since. Help?

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Comment from Tom on 2009-03-20

2009-03-20T18:57:00Z

My screen on my laptop kept turning black every 10-20 seconds. I fixed this problem by uninstalling an avg program from freeavg.com. Hopefully I fixed the problem, because my screen hasn't turned off for over 2 minutes.

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Comment from terry on 2009-03-19

2009-03-19T13:20:28Z

my screen turns black after about 15 minutes but I can still use the pc everything on desktop still being visible its just the background is black and then I go into display and change the colour and is ok till the next time approx every 15 to 20 minutes

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Comment from Julian on 2009-02-23

2009-02-23T23:40:52Z

I have a Toshiba Tecra A6. When my computer crashes, the backlight to the LCD screen shuts off and a buzzing sound comes out of the speakers. Strangely this only occurs when viewing videos through Windows Media Player or when viewing youtube videos. I updated my flash player and WMP, but I still get this problem. It's been occuring for probably 2 or 3 months now and I've had this laptop since March or April of 2006. The only tinkering I've done is undervolting all multipliers to the CPU. I restored the voltages to default for a bit to see if that would solve the problem but unfortunately it hasn't. I've tried different ATI drivers. I'm sure it's not overheating, well considering the CPU anyways, as RMclock registers temps in the mid 40's. If it means anything, I can watch movies/clips through VLC player flawlessly and I do so several times a week. I've updated as many drivers as I could. I've had someone from dslreports.com check my Hijackthis logs and other logs back last October as I got a virus from accepting to update my JAVA from an internet explorer popup (silly). Any help would be appreciated.

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Comment from Kristine on 2009-02-22

2009-02-23T01:44:45Z

I have a HP Laptop, my screen will just go black while I am actively using the system. Wiggling the mouse, touch pad, or even pushing the power button do not work. I know that my laptop is still running as all the lights are on and I can hear sound.

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Comment from alica on 2009-02-21

2009-02-21T19:30:24Z

When I turn on the computer the screen flashes on for a second and then goes black. I changed the monitor thinking it was the problem but the same thing happened after a couple of weeks. I have also noticed that my computer will sometimes reset its self to Jan 1, 1999 when this happens. I am now on my third monitor.

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Comment from TIGERe on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T15:55:30Z

For me the problem was zonealarm, after I removed that program, I didn't have blank screens any more.

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Comment from bojana on 2009-01-26

2009-01-26T08:47:27Z

I have problem with my DELL laptop..my monitor went to a black screen while I was doing something in Matlab, the system worked because I could hear the sound..I turned off computer and then started it again, my system starts properly but then again I am getting black screen,the picture comes randomly for a second and then loose again..if I wait I can see that my system is going in stand by mode ...after 12h I turned it again and now works properly for about 50 minutes and then again black screen...can you please tell me whats the problem? is it virus, power supply or?

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Comment from gina on 2009-01-19

2009-01-20T00:02:13Z

MY COMPUTER HAS A BLACK SCREEN WHEN I TURN IT ON BUT I CAN HERE THE HARD AND FAN GOING. IT SAID PERITING AND DMI POOL DATE CAN SOMEONE HELP WITH THIS .

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Comment from mairhynn on 2008-11-25

2008-11-25T20:35:45Z

i was like playing some online game then suddenly it freeze.. i wiggle the mouse but nothin happens.. so i restarted my computer but when i restarted it.. message shows "power saving mode" then it went blank screen..
i tried wiggling the mouse and hit the keys in my keyboard but nothin happens! please help!

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Comment from Jerry D. Milton on 2008-11-23

2008-11-23T12:49:12Z

My monitor just started going off about every 5 minutes. I just turn the monitor off & right back on & it comes up for another 5 or 6 minutes. I've run virus & sypware on it. it still has not stopped it. My computer & monitor is less than 2 yrs. old. Monitor is an HP f2105.

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Comment from Shirley on 2008-11-16

2008-11-16T21:45:20Z

This is actually for my friend who has xp operating system and in recent time has been getting a black screen, he has checked all the connections, they are fine, has also blown the computer out so that it is clean, now he gets black screen sometimes as early as 7 - 10 minutes after start up, it lasts approx 1/2 hour and then can see the desk top again, these episodes are becoming more frequent, could it be the power supply on the way out? The video card....or time to buy an new computer....he was thinking of reformatting the hard drive but not sure that this would help if the problem does lie in the power supply or video card...if we are in an im and the mouse is in the right place he can still send me messages, however with the black screen he cannot read the response..any help would be appreciated.

I wouldn't expect reformatting to help - this feels like a hardware issue. My first step would be to try a different monitor for a while - it actually kinda feels like the monitor might be dying.

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Comment from Joe Burrell on 2008-10-10

2008-10-11T02:15:19Z

My computer seems to be frozen. The background color of the screen is now black, and I can't get on to the internet. I can see my e-mail, but it will not download any new messages. How serious is this? Has my computer crashed? How can I determine for myself what is wrong?

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Comment from Jona on 2008-10-03

2008-10-03T18:51:40Z

My computer it has black screen then said disk boot failurer, insert disk press enter than when i do that is asking for A:\]

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Comment from Laura on 2008-08-01

2008-08-01T08:02:41Z

Ok.. I have read the comment above.
I have a Hp laptop and when I turn it on the screen is just black. I can hear the fans going and they're very loud. I am able to open the CD dreive however, is my laptop in hibernation or has it overheated?

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Comment from BRENT on 2008-07-25

2008-07-25T11:54:51Z

MY COMPUTOR IS A DELL TOWER, IT WENT INTO A BLACK SCREEN, THE POINTER FOR THE MOUSE IS UP ON THE SCREEN AND IT MOVES BUT I HAVE NO PICTURE, THE COMPUTOR IS RUNNING BECAUSE I USE IT AS A SEVER AND I AM WORKING THRU IT ALL THE TIME THE MONITOR IS OK BECAUSE I HAVE A 4 PORT SWITCHER AND THE OTHER COMPUTORS ARE SHOWING. COULD IT BE A VIDEO CARD? THANKS

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Comment from David on 2008-06-04

2008-06-05T01:08:24Z

Thanks to the commenter Chris. I also have a Dell Optiplex GX270 that randomly "turns off", but still shows good power. Inspected the motherboard, and I can see two caps with leaking electrolyte on the top of the cap. Dell's out of stock, so I have a rather hefty boat anchor. The Dell folks did try to sell me several other items - none of which would actually replace the motherboard.

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Comment from Joyce on 2008-05-26

2008-05-26T13:04:37Z

my computer has a picture on it not from me and it keeping me from getting on the internet or in any program on my computer. I bought a virus tape but it still there.

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Comment from David on 2008-04-25

2008-04-25T22:57:51Z

My computer crashes in random intervals,
screen goes black and monitor goes into power saving mode, but fans are working and dvd drive
door can be opened and closed, keyboard and mouse
don't work,
after I turn computer off and on again ,sometimes
it continues working and sometimes I get the problem repeatedly even before windows starts to boot.
I have monitored tempreturs and voltages and all are ok.
:s I need help

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Comment from trevor on 2008-04-12

2008-04-13T03:27:59Z

on my PC, say after playing 10-20 minutes of a video game it will get the black screen, would it be the video card or anything related to that, and i can still do regular things like get on the internet and play video games that are of very low graphics.

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Comment from nour sydney on 2008-03-12

2008-03-12T08:01:10Z

i have a problem with my toshiba qosmio g30. when i turn it on the screen stays black but i can steel hear the beep, then i have to press fn f5 in order for it to work , i don't know if it's vedio card problem or it's screen.thanks

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Comment from Cheryl on 2008-03-08

2008-03-08T21:42:05Z

I had my Toshiba Satellite Turion 64 for several months. Not long after purchasing, my monitor would go black requiring reboot to function. I took the advice in this post and played a CD leaving it to continuously rotate play. Eventually, the screen went black and the CD no was no longer playing either. I guess this means my computer completely stopped working. What does this mean? I did purchase extended warranted which requires me to mail my laptop back to the manufacturer. At this point, it looks like that may be my only alternative.

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Comment from Josh on 2008-01-14

2008-01-15T01:25:56Z

i have done all of these things, at first i thought i was my mouse and keyboard so i switched out, still didnt work. i plugged monitor back(switched from Nvidia Geforce 8500gt to motherboard) into the standard lot on the panel and nothing. the only time this happens is when its been sitting for about ten minutes ( the time my screensaver is supposed to come up after) and goes black. nothing short of turning off the computer will get the screen back up. with it not being GFX card and having tested for viruses and switching out equipment nothing has improved. then i thought could it be the motherboard malfunctioning? i already have a USB port that doesn't work so it does make sense.. ideas? comments?

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Comment from huffnpuff on 2008-01-10

2008-01-10T17:46:23Z

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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Comment from matt on 2007-12-23

2007-12-23T23:57:00Z

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

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Comment from andy on 2007-12-19

2007-12-19T19:53:57Z

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

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Comment from Helene on 2007-10-11

2007-10-11T15:50:43Z

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!

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Comment from Sophia Din on 2007-09-30

2007-10-01T01:22:25Z

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!

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Comment from Timon on 2007-08-24

2007-08-24T08:47:20Z

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.

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Comment from avi on 2007-08-09

2007-08-09T12:19:19Z

why i get a black screen on my coputer after a while is this a monitor or computer problem

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Comment from Art on 2007-07-22

2007-07-22T18:13:28Z

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.
Hope this comment might interest you.
Yours, Art

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Comment from Jono Dines on 2007-06-08

2007-06-08T21:28:08Z

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.

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Comment from Saeid on 2007-05-13

2007-05-13T15:01:28Z

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.

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Comment from kc on 2007-05-11

2007-05-11T18:06:21Z

AFTER FURTHER INSPECTING THE SAME ISSUE ON MY COMPUTER, I REALIZED IT WAS THE POWER SAVING FEATURE IN WINDOWS SHUTTING OFF THE MONITOR LOL!

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Comment from saeid on 2007-02-08

2007-02-08T14:32:52Z

My screen was turning black after the computer had been working for a while , sometimes by clicking a link ,sometimes by itself.I increased the RAM of my computer from 512 MB to 768 by changing one of my 256 MB memory card to 512 MB memory card,since then I have not experienced any black screen and I use the advantage of having more memory as well.

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Comment from Ron on 2007-01-25

2007-01-25T16:27:04Z

I am a IT Specialist with IHS/DHHS and I have replaced over 180 motherboards with the bloating or leaky capacitors. Model(s) in question are the Dell GX270 Optiplex (all form factors) and less on the GX 280's. Symptoms were like the computer went into hibernating/powersave, you would have to restart; some would restart repeatedly; some would go black screen twice a day or once every two or three days. All would go to black screen. It was very frustrating troubleshooting each one until Dell admitted to a capacitor problem on mainboards manufactered before a certain date.

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Comment from Daniel on 2006-12-28

2006-12-28T23:14:18Z

I was running Photoshop CS2, designing a signature for myself, right in the middle of doing my work, the computer crashed unexpectedly, hearing the eerie sound of death. 10 minutes later, when I was loading a screen in EverQuest, it crashed again. Then, I tried to check for spyware with Spybot, it didn't get through, because it crashed again. I don't know what's causing this? I may have been to a few bad sites (porn sites), or download more then 100 songs on my computer But is that really the cause of the computer crash?

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Comment from Daniela on 2006-12-14

2006-12-14T19:43:18Z

I get the black screen after my computer has been idle for a while and the screensaver has already come on. Usually, I have to turn it off and reboot. I recently reformatted the system but it doesn't seem to be linked to that. Could it be the fan?

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Comment from robertc on 2006-11-15

2006-11-15T12:58:53Z

Try to use a software to repair your LCD screen. I advise you to use the one from here: http://fixdeadpixels.uv.ro

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Comment from hamid on 2006-10-29

2006-10-29T20:28:26Z

I tried changing the boot up in the BIOS to the CD-ROM and put the Windows XP CD in but nothing comes up. You can hear the CD spinning for a while though.

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Comment from Joe on 2006-10-16

2006-10-16T16:35:16Z

I too am experiencing regular periodic black screens. The power light on the lcd monitor stays on. If I turn it off and then on again after 3 or so seconds the monitor comes back to life. Other programs seem to be working okay, including audio...I noticed that when my son is logged on under his own XP userid, the problem disappears. I am beginning to suspect a virus. If so - What virus would be causing this and how do I get rid of it? I run Mcafee regularly....

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Comment from sharon on 2006-10-02

2006-10-02T18:41:46Z

im triing to help my mom fix her pc. she opened an email and the computer shut down. when she turned it back on it flashed the compaq screen with F1 and F10 at the bottom then goes to a black screen with a cursor at the top. the F1 screen brings up BIOS mode F10 and F8 do nothing and esc. bring up a boot order dialog. ive tried burning discs off my pc and putting them on hers to try and restore her windows but it doesnt seem to be reading the cd.. the cd rom is working the green light comes on and you can here the disk spin but then nothing happens and it goes back to the black screen with the cursor.. can any one walk me threw bios mode? or help me restore my moms pc? she just started a buisness and all her contacts are in the pc!! ty sharon

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Comment from Alan Barnes on 2006-09-27

2006-09-27T15:40:18Z

My friends PC starts to Boot up, goes through POST and the Windows Logo appears, then the Screen changes and gives various options of starting Windows, the keyboard does not respond and after the 30 seconds tries to boot but the monitor goes into standby mode and nothing can be seen on the screen, after pressing the Reset button, the Windows Screen appears again and the System keeps Restarting by itself with nothing on the Screen, it is not possible then to go into the BIOS to see what is happening or to change or load Default settings

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Comment from Chris on 2006-08-23

2006-08-24T04:00:38Z

Damn my sloppy HTML. The link above should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

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Comment from Chris on 2006-08-23

2006-08-24T03:55:14Z

Although, like Leo said, this can be caused by a miriad of things, I had this same problem happen to me a few weeks ago, so I figured I'd share. I had two seperate Dell Optiplex GX270's at my office that, within a week of each other, would randomly show a black screen. The power light on the PC would remain solidly lit, but everything else would become unresponsive as if the machine was off.

I opened up the case (after completely reinstalling the operating system all all apps) and saw the problem. On both machines, several of the capacitors had blown out; in one of the machines they had visibly leaked. The capacitors are the tall, tubular shaped things that stick up off of the board (there are good pictures of damaged ones here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague)
Repairing this requires either a supply of the correct type of capacitors, a steady hand, and a soldering iron, or, as in my case, a long and annoying call to Dell support to get a replacement motherboard.
An initial visual inspection of all installed hardware (add on devices, like video cards, frequently have capacitors as well) would have saved me a lot of time, and is another point to add onto your troubleshooting list.

Cheers!

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Comment from Paul on 2006-08-22

2006-08-23T00:47:30Z

I think I have solved the "black screen" problem, and I know virtually nothing about computers. After I bought my HP f1503 monitor with HP computer about 3 years ago, I began having problems from the beginning. After about 15 days spending in excess of 15 hours on the phone with MSN technical support in Nova Scotia (and after spending 35 bucks for technical support), a very smart person discovered that my Norton anti-virus software that had been installed at the retail store where I purchased the computer had basically attacked my computer, placing a firewall between me and the internet, preventing me from accessing the internet. After that problem was corrected, and after downloading Semantic (phonetic) software as well, I began noticing the black screen syndrome. I do not believe for one instant that my relatively new computer monitor is defective; rather, I firmly believe that Semantec and/or Norton anti-virus personal firewalls are the true culprits. I basically removed the programs from my hard drive and the problem has corrected itself. I also believe that all Norton/Semantic products place a fire wall inside the PC and cause such problems. It reminds me of a certain Star Trek episode (original series) where the computer attacked everything (NOMAD, or something like that); perhaps Norton should rename itself NOMAD....

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Comment from Ben on 2006-08-20

2006-08-20T18:31:33Z

Please E-Mail Me Asap! Cheers!

Well i keep starting my computer as normal and after about 2minuites it goes to a blue screen and says beggining physical memory dump then it completes and still stays on the blue screen!

Please e-mail with the problem, ive downloaded and anti-virus but cant use it because im running in safe mode(direct servies restore) the only way i can get this darn thing to work atm momemnt. This only happened a few days back though when my computer turned off then it kept saying your computer is infected with adware n spyware but i cudnt exit the progam ? Please help asap ben

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Comment from nyoni on 2006-08-15

2006-08-15T20:25:24Z

hwen i switch on my computer it appear microsoft symbol and a music,how can i set this to have my personal music option at starting up???

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Comment from jay on 2006-08-11

2006-08-11T13:42:17Z

my standby mode of my computer is not working. whenever i am trying to put my pc into standby mode, i couldnt. the standby mode option is not high-lighted on the menu, there is no option for standby mode. Also, there is no hibernate option. i guess my OS is corrupted. How will i get it back?

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Comment from Kent LG on 2006-08-05

2006-08-05T09:41:40Z

I'm having the same problem with my PC. I've replaced my power supply and video card and it still goes off every 15 to 30 minutes. Can it be my Mobo or bad drivers?..I'm really looking into it and trying to solve the matter

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Comment from peter cupido on 2006-07-08

2006-07-09T02:16:40Z

The screen of my laptop suddenly gets often black as well, and when that starts I can switch off/on forever but it keeps doing it after a short while. It's just the screen, the computer keeps working. I remedied this by disabling the screen saver and disable any hibernation or stand-by.

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Comment from Samuel Johansson on 2006-07-03

2006-07-04T06:38:37Z

I've had this problem with an USB mouse. It seemed like Windows "didn't know that I was using the mouse" and went into screensaver mode.
After hitting a key on the keyboard, the screensaver went away and I was able to continue using the system.

A really strange problem indeed. However, replacing the mouse solved the problem.

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Comment from Therese on 2006-07-03

2006-07-03T22:41:25Z

I had this same issue with my old computer that was running Win 98 SE. I went through and systematically started to replace everything in there. By the time I was done, I only had the CRW drive, motherboard and ram that was original over the computer.

Still was giving me the issues.

It took an upgrade to Win XP to stop the problems, and I haven't had a problem since. I hope that this helps anyone else.

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