screen works but goes blank on mouse over windows 7

iansane · 08-01-2011, 11:53 PM

Hi,

I picked up a sabrent usb-DH88 video card at the local computer store. I tried installing on Ubuntu linux but it didn't work (just got a green screen and ended up messing up my other two screens and nvidia drivers trying to get it to work) but the community instructions for Ubuntu are about 2 distributions behind.

So then I decided to switch to windows 7 pro (dual boot system). Well, I downloaded the latest driver from the displaylink site and it works most of the time. The problem is, it seems as though something will make it start going black on me and after that, just hovering to that screen with the mouse will make it go black. I can then use the mouse or drag a window over the screen to make the desktop background appear again but in a few seconds it will go blank by it's self or if I go back to that screen with the mouse it will blank out.

After system restart it works correctly again for a while until something sets it off.

For example I was running photoshop using all 3 screens for the various dockable windows today and everything was working fine. Then when I opened firefox browser and dragged it over the sabrent usb screen it blanked out. From that point I had to move my Photoshop windows all off that screen because it kept blanking out when ever I tried to use any of those windows.

Anyone know of any known issues with win 7 for which there is a fix? Oh, and it's 32bit with 3Gig RAM, and a AMD Athalon x2 64 CPU, and evga7900 video card.

Thanks

08-01-2011, 11:53 PM	#1
iansane Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 4	screen works but goes blank on mouse over windows 7 Hi, I picked up a sabrent usb-DH88 video card at the local computer store. I tried installing on Ubuntu linux but it didn't work (just got a green screen and ended up messing up my other two screens and nvidia drivers trying to get it to work) but the community instructions for Ubuntu are about 2 distributions behind. So then I decided to switch to windows 7 pro (dual boot system). Well, I downloaded the latest driver from the displaylink site and it works most of the time. The problem is, it seems as though something will make it start going black on me and after that, just hovering to that screen with the mouse will make it go black. I can then use the mouse or drag a window over the screen to make the desktop background appear again but in a few seconds it will go blank by it's self or if I go back to that screen with the mouse it will blank out. After system restart it works correctly again for a while until something sets it off. For example I was running photoshop using all 3 screens for the various dockable windows today and everything was working fine. Then when I opened firefox browser and dragged it over the sabrent usb screen it blanked out. From that point I had to move my Photoshop windows all off that screen because it kept blanking out when ever I tried to use any of those windows. Anyone know of any known issues with win 7 for which there is a fix? Oh, and it's 32bit with 3Gig RAM, and a AMD Athalon x2 64 CPU, and evga7900 video card. Thanks