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. Bought brand new chords (HDMI + Adapter) Bought a brand new second monitor (issues happening with both old and new monitor) Checked for updates on all drivers Reinstalled both graphics drivers Rolled back graphics drivers Checked basic settings (sleep/power/screen saver settings) Disabled all services in background apps in "System Configuration" 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!

I am also having the same issue. I have swapped video cards, I have fresh installed windows, I have turned off windows managing my drivers so that AMD controls them. I even lowered my refresh rate (which is killing my games) Honestly this is ridiculous. I even got a different monitor and brand new, expensive, gold tipped cables. Switched from DP to HDMI and back again. I have been stressing thinking I need a new mother board, but now I see so many people having the issues, I have to make the educated guess that it's windows. I don't know if I can live with that. I may switch to Linux until they can resolve these issues.

I've been having the same problem with my left monitor (monitor 1). One of the page 1 comments mentioned refresh rates, so I pulled up the advanced display settings and had a look... the monitor that's been giving me trouble had the refresh rate set to 59.940 Hz, which is just bizarre. I switched it to 60Hz (same as the other monitor) and so far the problem seems resolved.

My screen was going black for a second every couple seconds and I found out from Event Viewer that this event was erroring at the same time; "Session "ETW USB tracing" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000022" Then found out that this related to Oculus app on my PC. Removed the app, no new errors and the problem was gone.

started having the same problem on my main monitor like a month ago, only way to fix it was to reduce refresh rate to 60hz. is there anyone who had the same problem and managed to find a way to fix it? i really want to work on this monitor with 240hz

Second monitor keeps on temporarily going black at random

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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.

Bought brand new chords (HDMI + Adapter)
Bought a brand new second monitor (issues happening with both old and new monitor)
Checked for updates on all drivers
Reinstalled both graphics drivers
Rolled back graphics drivers
Checked basic settings (sleep/power/screen saver settings)
Disabled all services in background apps in "System Configuration"
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!

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2025-02-09T00:07:04+00:00

I am also having the same issue. I have swapped video cards, I have fresh installed windows, I have turned off windows managing my drivers so that AMD controls them. I even lowered my refresh rate (which is killing my games) Honestly this is ridiculous. I even got a different monitor and brand new, expensive, gold tipped cables. Switched from DP to HDMI and back again. I have been stressing thinking I need a new mother board, but now I see so many people having the issues, I have to make the educated guess that it's windows. I don't know if I can live with that. I may switch to Linux until they can resolve these issues.
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2024-12-30T19:34:24+00:00

I've been having the same problem with my left monitor (monitor 1). One of the page 1 comments mentioned refresh rates, so I pulled up the advanced display settings and had a look... the monitor that's been giving me trouble had the refresh rate set to 59.940 Hz, which is just bizarre. I switched it to 60Hz (same as the other monitor) and so far the problem seems resolved.
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2024-12-30T06:31:10+00:00

My screen was going black for a second every couple seconds and I found out from Event Viewer that this event was erroring at the same time; "Session "ETW USB tracing" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000022" Then found out that this related to Oculus app on my PC. Removed the app, no new errors and the problem was gone.
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2024-12-29T13:42:17+00:00

started having the same problem on my main monitor like a month ago, only way to fix it was to reduce refresh rate to 60hz. is there anyone who had the same problem and managed to find a way to fix it? i really want to work on this monitor with 240hz
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