Desktop display goes off every minute or so

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Dave B

I have an Emachines system with XP Homne Edition. Last weekend the desktop
display began disappearing after less than a minute. It would go off, then
come back and do this several times and finally stay off. The NumLock LED
stayed on all the time. I downloaded the Taskbarplus! program, but I can't
get it to stay up long enough to get the program into the system. How am I
going to get the desktop to stay up long enough to try to fix it? Is the
answer to use an XP CD and come up that way?
 
Dave B said:
I have an Emachines system with XP Homne Edition. Last weekend the desktop
display began disappearing after less than a minute. It would go off,
then
come back and do this several times and finally stay off. The NumLock LED
stayed on all the time. I downloaded the Taskbarplus! program, but I
can't
get it to stay up long enough to get the program into the system. How am
I
going to get the desktop to stay up long enough to try to fix it? Is the
answer to use an XP CD and come up that way?
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Have you tried another monitor, or reseating the cables to the monitor?

HTH
-pk
 
The first thing I did was to replace the monitor and cable. It had no
effect. I just wonder about using an XP CD to boot up and maybe run a repair
mode. Could there be some code that got scrambled somehow?
 
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