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    Black screen blinking

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by satishdsc, Dec 20, 2008.

  1. satishdsc

    satishdsc Guest

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    Hi Exterts,
    I bought a Thinkpad T61 with vista. As most of people hate that, I'm also no exception. I loaded XP and it was working fine. But suddenly from the past 4 days I'm getting a blinking black screen at the start of the program.

    Lets say I'm browsing and I kept the laptop idle for 15 min. Then when I come back and touch the trackpad or mouse , the screen blinks for 4 or 5 times and then after that it will function normally with out any errors.

    I don't know what is the problem and why I'm getting that.
    Suggestion from the experts is needed in this hour of need.


    Thanks,
    Satish.
     
    satishdsc, Dec 20, 2008
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  2. gary_hendricks

    gary_hendricks Notebook Evangelist

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    This sounds like it is a Vista power setting problem. Have you set it to a special sleep mode kind of setting?
     
    gary_hendricks, Dec 20, 2008
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  3. lazat

    lazat Notebook Enthusiast

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    gary hendricks.. he have installed XP=)

    satishdsc.. press FN+F3, to get the powermanager up ( i do have a swedish version so bear with me on my bad translation of the program ;D) press settings in the powermanager where u can choose between different powermodes. in settings, click on the middle tab, called global energysavingsettings. there u shall find something called dynamic setting of screenbrightness. i turned that off. i also configured my own powerscheme and disabled the "reduce the monitors updatefrequence".

    i hope that helps=) it fixed the problem for me atleast :D
     
    lazat, Dec 22, 2008
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