Thanks,
It's not been happening for a wee while now. I think I eventually tracked it
down to a driver update, possibly an ethernet controller update, but might
have been an NVidia video driver. It's difficult to be 100% as these things
are never totally consistent.
"Stu" wrote:
Quote:
> I have the same experience on my Toshiba Lap top. I think that it may be
> causing blackouts on cds and dvds that I burn. I cannot relate the screen
> blanking to any particular activity.
>
> "DMM" wrote:
> Quote:
> > Vista refreshes the screen every few seconds (it blinks ever so briefly) and
> > any keys pressed (such as shift) or menus open are cancelled. This means it
> > is difficult to access long menus and impossible to use certain selection
> > tools in Photoshop etc. I suspect it's a rogue driver. Anyone else had these
> > symptoms?