I just want to let people know of an obscure, but very frustrating computer problem. I recently sat down at my desktop, ready for a good session on Lightroom. The main monitor and also the secondary fired up and I logged on without drama, then the problem started. Firstly the main screen went totally blank and the smaller one began blinking off and on in about five second cycles.
Checked that no cables were loose then did several restarts but all for no change. Had to resort to the tricky job of deleting the monitor driver on a screen that is only on for five seconds at a time. Failed again. Grabbed the laptop and Google saved the day even though I could not find the exact problem. A somewhat similar situation gave the advice to disconnect power to the monitor, assumedly the main one, but I chose the powerpoint which fed all the gear via a powerboard. After all of the frustration, it was fixed; it turns out that the monitor handshake can become corrupted and restart does not fix it, turn off power entirely.
Hope that this does not bore you, just keep in the back of your mind that a full power off rather than restart may rectify some obscure computer issue.
Ron
That switch on the power point is commonly known as "The big reset button". Generally works best after 15 or 20 seconds off time.
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