White screen / black screen

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 16 20:26:20 PDT 2014


On 2014-04-15 12:25 (GMT-0600) Ryan Watson composed:

> * Lenovo M58 Desktop PC

Does the same problem occur with both video out ports?

Has anyone looked under the covers? This is old enough that it may be or 
becoming a victim of capacitor deterioration, either on motherboard, or in 
power supply, or both.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

Also, Intel video RAM is shared with main motherboard RAM. It might be RAM 
re-seating or replacement would be the solution.
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