Hi David,

It could be the monitor.  Mine always clicks when it goes into powersave
mode.  Could be your's is doing so when it shouldn't.  My 17" monitor just
died the other day, and the problem appeared to be that it kept getting
powersave signals and just clicked without ever showing anything on the
screen.

Good luck!

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From: "David Jonathan Justman" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 4:42 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Strange System Problem


> Lately, the Nasty Beige Box does something very close to turning
> itself off while I'm in the middle of working.  This has happened
> several times in the last week or so, and never happened before.
> Suddenly, there's a click, and the screen turns black.  No mouse
> operation of keyboard click seems to return it to normal, though Ctl-
> Alt-Dlt twice will cause it to reboot, apparently normally, into
> Windows.
> It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the time it's been
> running, since it twice happened again immediately after rebooting.
>  There is no sign that anything else is odd in the house's electrical
> system.  The power light stays on, but there's no sign of disk
> activity, though I haven't stood beside it a long time to watch.
>
> Celeron 466, Win98 SE, 192MB, 8GB.
>
>
>
> Thank you.
> David Jonathan Justman

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