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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
how old is your LCD? they don't have the same lifetime as CRTs.
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It's almost 2 years old. But gets a lot of use. 12+hrs a day.
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Originally Posted by Shadowex3
Wait, your problem is that your monitor goes black only when the mouse is in motion? As in wiggle it for a black screen and it comes back on when you hold still or as in going blank for a second on the first motion?
Also DVI should be much crisper than Dsub for flatpanels because you're sending a digital signal to a digital device, the wavy combined with the mouse affecting the screen says "interference" to me. Try a different DVI cable? They're quite inexpensive at Monoprice.com.
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monitor goes black only when the mouse is in motion? As in wiggle it for a black screen and it comes back on when you hold still -
Yes It doesn't happen every time. It's always the intermittent stuff that drives me nuts. It's like this
restart comp, open Firefox, move mouse, screen goes black for 3-5 seconds.
Move the mouse 3 or 4 times, screen goes black for 3-5 seconds.
Move mouse 8 or 9 times ..........so on, until eventually it quits going black.
I also noticed it taking longer to return from black if I continued moving the mouse.
The Dsub looks at least as good as the DVI, maybe it is the cable. Neither looks bad, I just thought the DVI should look better.
Now it's really messing with me. It doesn't do it with the D-sub. Now it doesn't do it with the DVI after removing and replacing the same cable. Then it also occurred to me that it was only doing it when Firefox was open.
I'll give it a week and see if it recurs, if so I'll try a new cable.
I was just taking a shot that someone had experienced this before and had a quick fix. No joy.