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Moniter Blacking out

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toppdogg_1

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Whenever I try to delete, right click, a video file or open up my Advance options for my video card my moniter will black out for a few seconds and then will be back to normal. This problem just started today never had it happen before. I have a P4 3.4 with an 6600GT with latest drivers (just updated drivers today, after the problem started to see if it would resolve it and it did for a while then started happening again, also the problem stops if i uninstall my graphics card drivers and starts up again once i reinstall). Is there anything i can do to stop this from happening?
 
I have the same problem. It has to be something to do with a driver update. Originally I thought it was the newest driver but i went back to my old driver and its doing the same thing.

When you right click on a file for like properties or something, the whole screen goes blank for about a sec or 2 and then pops back on. Im using 78.01 and having that problem. I had the newest driver and thought that was problem so i switched back and still have that problem.

FYI, I used driver cleaner in safe mode to uninstall the new driver bfore going back to 78.01.

Could this be caused by a Windows Update that was just released not to long ago??
 
My monitor "blinked" ocasionally when connected to my uninterruptible power supply... I changed sockets on tjhe UPS and it worked fine....

The wiring in your house old?

just my thoughts....
 
In my case the wiring is new in my home. I also have a new UPS but it works fine.
 
Your monitor "blacking out" is actually resyncing. It's resyncing because your new drivers have installed something in windows which runs a .dll or something that resets your video when you right-click a file. I've experienced similar problems in both win98 and winxp with both ATI and nVidia video drivers.

Use Regmon and Filemon from sysinternals (http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/RegmonNt.zip, http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/FilemonNt.zip) to find out what that thing is. Before you start them, shut down every running process you can (though don't go overboard, we're trying to find a problem). When you start the programs, they'll pop up filter options. Exclude "regmon;diskmon;filemon" and highlight "avi". In the Options menu, activate Clock Time and Show Milliseconds. If there's some program constantly accessing your registry and/or disk, add its name to the appropriate Exclude list.

Now, with regmon and filemon running, load up Explorer and right-click on a video file. Wait for your video to resync, then flick back to regmon and filemon and stop logging in both with ctrl+e. Now the hunt begins.

You're looking for something related to your video drivers that occurred after you right-clicked the file. The access begins around when you see Explorer issuing an OpenKey on "HKCU\.avi". Your video drivers will likely have added something to its ShellEx or PropertyHandler subkeys. Look for something with "nv" in the file name.

When I first installed WinXP, I was appalled at the amount of registry dinking going on behind the scenes. Regmon's allowed me to find such sheer nonsense as WBEM logging (set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WBEM\CIMOM\Logging to 0 to stop winxp from accessing the disk literally every 15 minutes) and Filemon showed win98's DRM running amok and copying entire .avi files to c:\windows\temp when you right-click them. Filemon, Regmon, and Procexp are utterly indispensible diagnostic tools from sysinternals.

I'm running a Ti4200 here, upgrading to a 6800GS when it arrives (probably Friday). If I encounter the same problem with the latest drivers, I'm 150% solving it (I hate stuff like this) and will report back here. Good luck.
 
Battle_Rattle said:
My monitor "blinked" ocasionally when connected to my uninterruptible power supply... I changed sockets on tjhe UPS and it worked fine....

The wiring in your house old?

just my thoughts....
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Nope house is about 9 years old so wiring should be fine, we have 3 other computers and doesn't happen to any of them. Just mine, the other computers are also just basic set ups for rest of family to do e-mail, word process, edit pictures, stuff like that, mines the only gaming rig.
 
Foobar said:
Your monitor "blacking out" is actually resyncing. It's resyncing because your new drivers have installed something in windows which runs a .dll or something that resets your video when you right-click a file. I've experienced similar problems in both win98 and winxp with both ATI and nVidia video drivers.

Use Regmon and Filemon from sysinternals (http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/RegmonNt.zip, http://www.sysinternals.com/Files/FilemonNt.zip) to find out what that thing is. Before you start them, shut down every running process you can (though don't go overboard, we're trying to find a problem). When you start the programs, they'll pop up filter options. Exclude "regmon;diskmon;filemon" and highlight "avi". In the Options menu, activate Clock Time and Show Milliseconds. If there's some program constantly accessing your registry and/or disk, add its name to the appropriate Exclude list.

Now, with regmon and filemon running, load up Explorer and right-click on a video file. Wait for your video to resync, then flick back to regmon and filemon and stop logging in both with ctrl+e. Now the hunt begins.

You're looking for something related to your video drivers that occurred after you right-clicked the file. The access begins around when you see Explorer issuing an OpenKey on "HKCU\.avi". Your video drivers will likely have added something to its ShellEx or PropertyHandler subkeys. Look for something with "nv" in the file name.

When I first installed WinXP, I was appalled at the amount of registry dinking going on behind the scenes. Regmon's allowed me to find such sheer nonsense as WBEM logging (set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WBEM\CIMOM\Logging to 0 to stop winxp from accessing the disk literally every 15 minutes) and Filemon showed win98's DRM running amok and copying entire .avi files to c:\windows\temp when you right-click them. Filemon, Regmon, and Procexp are utterly indispensible diagnostic tools from sysinternals.

I'm running a Ti4200 here, upgrading to a 6800GS when it arrives (probably Friday). If I encounter the same problem with the latest drivers, I'm 150% solving it (I hate stuff like this) and will report back here. Good luck.
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The only NV file i seemed to have noticed was NVCPL.HLP but i haven't taken time to totally check though the log yet because i have to go out at the moment
 
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