topic Screen turns black at random moments - VAIO FZ11E in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.ie/t5/pcs-accessories/screen-turns-black-at-random-moments-vaio-fz11e/m-p/105410#M60767 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Strangely enough, my screen sometimes suddenly turns black. No, it's no screen saver or energy saving function.<BR />I think it must be something with the backlight of the monitor. If you look really, really carefully, you can still vaguely see the outline of my desktop background.<BR />It happens about once per day. Today I managed for the first time to move the mouse pointer to the Start menu while the screen was almost black and I subsequently chose the option 'switch user'. After that, the screen suddenly functioned properly again.<BR />What could this be?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:58:21 GMT joncats 2008-06-25T08:58:21Z Screen turns black at random moments - VAIO FZ11E https://community.sony.ie/t5/pcs-accessories/screen-turns-black-at-random-moments-vaio-fz11e/m-p/105410#M60767 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Strangely enough, my screen sometimes suddenly turns black. No, it's no screen saver or energy saving function.<BR />I think it must be something with the backlight of the monitor. If you look really, really carefully, you can still vaguely see the outline of my desktop background.<BR />It happens about once per day. Today I managed for the first time to move the mouse pointer to the Start menu while the screen was almost black and I subsequently chose the option 'switch user'. After that, the screen suddenly functioned properly again.<BR />What could this be?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:58:21 GMT https://community.sony.ie/t5/pcs-accessories/screen-turns-black-at-random-moments-vaio-fz11e/m-p/105410#M60767 joncats 2008-06-25T08:58:21Z Re: Screen turns black at random moments - VAIO FZ11E https://community.sony.ie/t5/pcs-accessories/screen-turns-black-at-random-moments-vaio-fz11e/m-p/105411#M60768 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>As you've said, it sounds like a dodgy backlight, I would contact VAIO-Link about it asap<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:19:14 GMT https://community.sony.ie/t5/pcs-accessories/screen-turns-black-at-random-moments-vaio-fz11e/m-p/105411#M60768 kee-lo_ 2008-06-25T14:19:14Z