Screen goes black before loading any video

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corleone · #1 Post by **corleone** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:55 pm

What would cause my screen to go BLACK before any videos will load? Similarly, when I close the window, the screen goes black again.

thanks

C.

christopher_wolf · #2 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:04 pm

What videos are you tryng to load and with what player?

Is this just on the laptop LCD?

corleone · #3 Post by **corleone** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:11 pm

For example, if I visit CNN.com, or ESPN.com and try to load one of the videos the screen will go totally black than after 15-20 seconds the video will load...

Usually with windows media player (as i think it is my default).

thanks!

corleone · #4 Post by **corleone** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:12 pm

Someone out there must have an idea for me to try.... Whenever I try to play a video, such as on cnn.com or espn.com or anything that uses windows media player... the screen goas BLACK...i can see in the blackness the outline of the video... it flashes a few times as if it is trying to load, and then it loads... similarly, when i CLOSE the video, the screen goes black fo2 2 seconds and then returns to normal....

PLEASE, any suggestions would be really appreciated...

C.

corleone · #5 Post by **corleone** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:05 pm

any suggestions are really appreciated
C.

corleone · #6 Post by **corleone** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:05 pm

any clue?

jch · #7 Post by **jch** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:46 pm

Look at your ATI Monitor settings--and specifically the PowerPlay tab.

You likely have "Allow automatic color reduction" selected.

Turn it off.

.../j

corleone · #8 Post by **corleone** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:17 pm

That didnt work... anyone else have an idea?

jch · #9 Post by **jch** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:52 pm

Right-click on your desktop.

Properties

Settings

What's your Color Quality set to??

.../j

corleone · #10 Post by **corleone** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:32 pm

HIGHEST 32 BIT

corleone · #11 Post by **corleone** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:34 am

what should it be set at?

corleone · #12 Post by **corleone** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:07 pm

I am still struggling with this problem... does ANYONE have a suggestion?

corleone · #13 Post by **corleone** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:20 pm

I am still plagued by this... Anytime i load a video in say Windows Media Player... screen goes black for 5 seconds, blinks a lil, then the video comes up... when i close (by using the X in top corner) the screen goes black again for 5 seconds, then returns to normal...

ANYONE have an idea? Or even a suggestions?

thanks all,

C.

jch · #14 Post by **jch** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:56 pm

Well, it sure sounds like Media Player is expecting different video settings than what your display is normally set to.

- color depth (8-, 16-, 24-, or 32-bit)
- resolution (are you using the non-default display resolution?)
- ATI's battery-saving mode which switches to less power-hungry settings (refresh, color depth) unless needed

Any of these things changing (when Media Player asks for them) would cause your screen to blank out and flash while it makes the changes.

Exiting Media Player would make it blank out and flash while it changes them back to your "normal" settings.

.../j

jch · #15 Post by **jch** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:57 pm

It could also be "Overlay" mode kicking in...

../j

Talon88 · #16 Post by **Talon88** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:04 am

:::

When you are not at any video page,
open task Manager & see your "system idle/CPU",
does it read more than 80-9x% or less than 30%....

Maybe because your system was full of unknown crap
processes loading at the background, so, your cpu have no
time to serve your video lanch request......

:::

corleone · #17 Post by **corleone** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:50 pm

Yes, my System Idle Process is in the 90's... what does that mean?

Screen goes black before loading any video

Screen goes black before loading any video

black screen

still unresolved

help

hmmm

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