Screen Flashing

[charlie]

When I load up my PC, the screen is largely blank but flashes for a second probably every 15 seconds so I can tell it's loading ok. Usually if I leave it 15 mins or so, the screen comes on and is then fine all day though this morning it refused to come on and kept flashing, but a reboot has made the screen come on fine.

No problems at all other than that .. any ideas ? Don't have a spare screen to test but wonder if there's a setting that may affect it ?

[Stealth]

Check the connections are all tight and not damaged was my first thought.

[charlie]

yep .. they seem fine .. changed one of the leads .. haven't the other yet but as I say, once it gets going it's fine and causes no more problems ... strange

[Whatever]

What actually was flashing, the led or the content on the screen?

[Steve Lampkins]

Mine did something similar when it was dying. I suspected blown capacitors, as it seems it worked once it was 'warmed up' a bit, but the time to warm up took longer and longer. I'm lazy, so after a few months of this, I eventually dug up the receipt; it was the day before the end of a 3 year warranty, so I took it in - they said it wasn't worth fixing and offered a replacement.