Can it be fixed? Point the way to some instructions. It's not anything network or I could not do this. It sure looks like the same symptoms as when my laptops have gone black. It is a dell 2007WFPb.
It is a Vista machine and I'm communicating in hardy heron on another computer, right now.
Today, I will test another monitor on the vista machine, but I'm pretty darn that it is the monitor.
semiretired, Good idea at hooking up a different monitor. If it turns out the different monitor doesn't work either, then it's more than likely your graphics card. On the other hand if it does work, then it may be the dell 2007WFPb and could be a defective Inverter , lamp, or controller board. I'll keep looking, though. Best wishes...Garry
semiretired, Hi and I'm sorry I haven't replied back to as yet. I'll agree with mokisu. While watching movies my screen would go black after a few minutes until I realized I had my monitor to shut off automatically after 15 min. Set it to Never and the problem went away...Garry
I disabled hibernate, and and have no screen saver or anything that shuts anything off on any computer I use. If I'm not going to be around, I shut them off.
I talked to Dell and they say that it is probably the motherboard, since it happened to two monitors and the second video card did the same.
My 410 xps needs a motherboard. I'm about to buy one on ebay.
Here is what happened. At the Dell site, I read that the actions could be from a bad memory module, so I started trying the modules, one at a time, in slot one. I had a bad mem mod. Then I found that I had a bad memory #2 slot by trying the good ones there. I also retried the bad mem stick in another slot. I ended up having a bad memory module and a bad memory #2 slot. I don't remember if the bad module was in the bad slot, but it seems a good bet.
So now I'm running my Vista Dell XPS 410 with 3g of ram, without slot 2. I will know more tonight and tomorrow night, when I place the machine back in service. I may still install the new GeForce 250 video card later in the week. Work is getting in the way of my computing ventures.
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