opening IE6 or Outlook causes monitor to power down

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Jim W

When opening IE6 or Outlook my monitor shuts down and I
have to reboot my monitor. This always happens until my
computer has warmed up or been left on for a period of
time. I use XP Home. I have a AMD 2000+ Any ideas anyone?
My cure has been not to shut down my computer. TY for any
advice
 
Jim,
Do you have an Nvidia graphics card? Seems to me there were some timing
problems with some versions of the Nvidia driver and XP that caused the
driver to go into an infinite loop. Usually it caused a blue screen, but I
could see where the driver might just power off before the blue screen
could display, if it wasn't getting a signal from the driver. Try
XP+Nvidia+loop in Google, or visit the Nvidia web site.

-- Phil
 
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