Second monitor keeps on temporarily going black at random

Anonymous
2023-01-08T02:47:33+00:00

I am working off of a laptop and have a second monitor to extend my displays. I have been using this set up for two years now and have not had a problem until last night. It seems that my attached monitor only (main monitor on laptop is not affected) will go black for a few seconds before turning back on and showing my screen. It should be noted that my laptop does not reset the display to place the windows back onto the main screen when this happens but the extended monitor goes black at random. Note that I am running Windows 10 and unable to upgrade to Windows 11 as of now.

So far, I have tried the following solutions but still cannot figure this out.

  1. Bought brand new chords (HDMI + Adapter)
  2. Bought a brand new second monitor (issues happening with both old and new monitor)
  3. Checked for updates on all drivers
  4. Reinstalled both graphics drivers
  5. Rolled back graphics drivers
  6. Checked basic settings (sleep/power/screen saver settings)
  7. Disabled all services in background apps in "System Configuration"
  8. Restarted Windows explorer

This means I have spent time replacing and even buying new equipment to get around this issue but cannot seem to figure it out! This is very important since I work at home as well. Please let me know if there is anything else I can possibly do outside of hard resetting the computer (which I cannot do for a few reasons). Thank you!

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Devices and drivers

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  1. Tamer Tug 53,885 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-05-08T11:04:53+00:00

    hi,

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-05-02T12:28:27+00:00

    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-05-02T09:30:54+00:00

    I concur, reducing refresh rate (to 50hz from 60hz in my case) appears to have worked, so far........

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-05-02T07:23:23+00:00

    What Nvidia spec you have?

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-05-02T01:35:15+00:00

    Mine started doing this after I updated my nvidia drivers this morning to 522.22

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