{"id":1979,"date":"2009-10-30T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/10\/whats-up-with-this-blinking-operating-system\/"},"modified":"2009-10-30T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T19:53:00","slug":"whats-up-with-this-blinking-operating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/10\/whats-up-with-this-blinking-operating-system.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s Up With This Blinking Operating System?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerdisplays.co.uk\/tft_flat_panel\/Lucoms_daewoo_19_inch_monitor.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.computerdisplays.co.uk\/tft_flat_panel\/Lucoms_daewoo_19_inch_monitor.jpg\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div>I\u2019ve installed Windows 7, and I\u2019m pleased so far \u2013 with one exception. Since installing Windows 7, my monitor keeps switching off and on again automatically. I\u2019ve seen some other people around the web complaining about a similar issue. So I guess this is the Windows 7 \u201cblack screen\u201d issue. I\u2019m not sure whether it is more or less annoying than Vista\u2019s black screen issue, but it certainly is different.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Any suggestions on how one might deal with this? I\u2019ve upgraded my video card driver. What should I try next?<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1726833140793752315?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve installed Windows 7, and I\u2019m pleased so far \u2013 with one exception. Since installing Windows 7, my monitor keeps switching off and on again automatically. I\u2019ve seen some other people around the web complaining about a similar issue. So I guess this is the Windows 7 \u201cblack screen\u201d issue. I\u2019m not sure whether it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s Up With This Blinking Operating System?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;ve installed Windows 7, and I&#039;m pleased so far - with one exception. 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