>Hi everybody,
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>I haven't searched on this topic but wondering if any of you have a similar experience.
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>I have an old Dell Laptop with an Acer monitor (old model too). At my current workplace I'm also using Dell (newer model).
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>With my old laptop I have been noticing that the monitor will go black with nothing to show. Turning it off and on again seems to help (but not in 100% cases).
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>I also started noticing something similar with my work setup although in that case the second monitor will just turn black for a very short period of time and then back on.
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>Do you think it may some new settings causing this effect?
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>Thanks in advance.

I see this from time to time on several of my computers. Only reliable fix is to reboot.