black screen of death

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How do I determine what is causing this problem?

In Beta 2 I had a problem where Vista would randomly die to a black screen
(not blue screen). At this point I would just have to power down my machine.
In RC1 (5600 and 5728) I did not experience this problem but instead I would
get random blue screens (attributed to my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video driver).
I upgraded to RC2 (5744) over the weekend and now the black screen of death
has come back. Like in Beta 2, I will be using Vista and then all of a sudden
the screen will turn black and the monitor goes into low power mode.
ctrl-alt-del does nothing, moving the mouse does nothing, so the only thing I
can do is power down and start again. When I restart I cannot figure out why
it crashed, nothing in the event log, no problem reports. Anyone else finding
similar problems?
 
Adjust the Power Options located in the Control Panel.
By default, the monitor will enter "sleep" after ten minutes.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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| How do I determine what is causing this problem?
|
| In Beta 2 I had a problem where Vista would randomly die to a black screen
| (not blue screen). At this point I would just have to power down my machine.
| In RC1 (5600 and 5728) I did not experience this problem but instead I would
| get random blue screens (attributed to my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video driver).
| I upgraded to RC2 (5744) over the weekend and now the black screen of death
| has come back. Like in Beta 2, I will be using Vista and then all of a sudden
| the screen will turn black and the monitor goes into low power mode.
| ctrl-alt-del does nothing, moving the mouse does nothing, so the only thing I
| can do is power down and start again. When I restart I cannot figure out why
| it crashed, nothing in the event log, no problem reports. Anyone else finding
| similar problems?
 
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