I have a Acer H213H monitor running on Windows XP SP2 with an Nvidea GeForce 7600 card. The problem is that the screen blinks every 60 seconds. Does anyone know how to fix this?

... have you tried altering the "refresh rate"? ... right click desktop click properties> settings (tab) advanced> monitor (tab) ... under monitor settings ...drop down Grrrr "...pentathol makes you sing like a canary" http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/... ... got brain freeze

Thanks, but it is set to 60 Hertz, and I can't change it, as there is only this one rate. Screen goes off 2 seconds every minute like clockwork. The generic driver may not be enough for this monitor. It happens no matter what my resolution, or which monitor cord (high res or plain VGA) I use. It disappears if I watch DVDs with PowerDVD which has its own drivers, I believe. I will probably just play with the Nvidea settings, and see what happens.

... just to make sure ... download this: http://www.astra32.com/download.htm ... install, and post back video chip details here Grrrr "...pentathol makes you sing like a canary" http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/... ... got brain freeze

Thanks again for your help. Acer said it was a power drainage problem, which it most definitely is not, as it works fine on Vista. In any case, their procedure didn't work on XP. Astra22 program yields the following for the video: Video Video Cip Vendor Nvidea Corp Video Chip GeForce 7600 GS Subsystem Vendor EVGA.COM Video Memory Size 256 MB Video BIOS Version 5.73.22.40.01 Video BIOS Date 0/14/06 AGP Capabilities AGP Version 3.0 AGP Speed Supported 1x 2x 4x (Selected 4x) Y Fast Write Supported, Enabled N 4GB Addressing Not Supported Y Side Band Addressing Supported, Enabled Driver Driver Status The device is working properly Manufacturer NVIDEA Device Description NVIDEA GeForce 7600 GS Device Class Display Device Location PCI bus 1device 0, function 0 Drver Provider NVIDEA Driver Version 6.14.10.9371 Driver Date 10-22-2006 Inf File oem11.inf Service Name nv Hardware ID PC\VEN_10DE&DEV_02E1&SUBSYS_A5423842&REV_A2 Compatible ID PC\VEN_10DE&DEV_02E1&REV_A2

... see if it is any different to this one: http://www.nodevice.com/driver/GeFo... Please, enter verification code: then download Grrrr "...pentathol makes you sing like a canary" http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/... ... got brain freeze

It is. I have uninstalled, then installed the lastest NVidea 7600 GS driver. That didn't do the trick. But I am thinking there is something fishy about my PnP monitor driver. Also, I keep getting the same Windows file considered spyware, generated from somewhere.