Re: Black screen continues - more strange stuff & info

dave wrote:

I'd hang-on to that pci graphics card - very useful for testing this
kind of thing. :)

Yes isn't it just. At one go it eliminates the AGP stuff as sus.

Well, at one stroke it eliminates the vast majority of plausible explanations :-)

As far as I can tell, the remaining possibilities are:

- Electrical interference issue with the monitor. Maybe the PC's PSU disrupting the mains current, but much more likely EM noise from the PC interfering with defective monitor circuitry. Not necessarily fixable without changing the monitor, although you could try tin foil, those iron hoops and moving cables away from the monitor.

- Bizarre software bug, probably involving a 3rd party widget attempting to switch the monitor into standby under certain load conditions. I can't see this happening on a clean Win2k + SP4 + OpenOffice install, so that's probably the best way of proving it.


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John Jordan
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