Monitor Blacking Out....

[Warren G]

It started to happen to me recently. Sometimes when I do stuff on the computer, my monitor just fades....Im thinking it might be my video card, but I'm not sure. Can someone help me fix this? Heres my spec:

Epox 8k3a
Athlon 1600xp non oc w/AX7 and AS3
256 DDR 2700
ATI Radeon 64 DDR Vivo
SB Live! Gamer
48x Samsung Cdrom
40x12x48 Lite On Burner
Windows 2k Pro SP3
430w Power Win PSU

[su root]

Need more info..
how does it "fade"? does it just go very dark & still work? or just black out?

It's probably your monitor getting old.. try using your monitor on another machine, or use another monitor on your machine.

You can also try changing video cards, but I don't think that's the problem, personally. Monitors tend to go before video cards do. I end up with hard-to-see, out of focus, and pink monitors all the time at work.

[Warren G]

well it just fades to black, completly black so i cant see anything. the way i get around it is turning my monitor off for a couple secs then turn it back on and if im lucky its back to normal.

[eXtraktor]

I had the same problem once with a Soyo motherboard. Turns out it couldnt take 3 sticks of memory, the memory wasnt bad in any way, just the motherboard didnt like it. I would play Rogue Spear and suddenly my monitor would go black, i could still play, without seeing anything though. I replaced the motherboard with the one im my sig and all has been fine since. But i see you have the same motherboard as me so im guessing its not the problem, i would look at your ram maybe or it could just be your monitor dying although when that happens its usually goes a certain color instead of just black.

[su root]

if you are turning off the monitor, then turning it back on, and it is coming back to life, then it's the monitor that's the problem. If it was the motherboard, turning on/off the monitor would have no effect. try another monitor.

[eXtraktor]

Originally posted by su root
if you are turning off the monitor, then turning it back on, and it is coming back to life, then it's the monitor that's the problem. If it was the motherboard, turning on/off the monitor would have no effect. try another monitor.

Maybe not, as i said, that same thing happened to me once but it wasnt the monitor. I had to turn it off and back on again, exactly like Warren G said. It could be the monitor but i doubt it.

[Warren G]

Hmmm thanks for the info guys. Btw, why would it be the ram?

[eXtraktor]

Originally posted by Warren G
Hmmm thanks for the info guys. Btw, why would it be the ram?

My problem wasnt the ram itself, it was the motherboard that had problems when i inserted 3 sticks of ram in it. For some reason it gave me errors while installing games and programs and made my monitor go black when i played games. I would try using the monitor in question on another computer if possible before blaming something else.

[roYal]

Just swap parts, that's the way to troubleshoot your system. Swap monitors, swap video cards. See what happens.