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to: AUGUST ABOLINS
from: Ed Vance
date: 2011-10-13 23:15:00
subject: XP Screen Flashes Black

AA>Ed Vance -> ALL said the following on 10/9/2011 10:21 PM:
AA> EV> When I started using the Vista Basic Home notebook here I
AA> EV> noticed that sometimes the LCD screen would flash black for a
AA> EV> moment while I was using it.

AA>Hi Ed..  Using XP here.  I've noticed that the screen would kind of
"refresh
AA>(desktop icons would regenerate), and doing so, the screen would appear to g
AA>dark for just a fraction of a second.

AA>Happens very rarely. But when it does, it's usually when I've reached a
AA>threshold in memory resources and have to kill a rogue program.

August,

My XP box wasn't doing it for the first five years that I used it,
or at least I never noticed it happening until just recently.

Just a few months after I got the box I added 2 GB of RAM to give it a
total of 3 GB thinking that I wouldn't 'ever' have any memory problems.


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