Projector blue screening

[mediaguru]

Hi everybody! At least once during the worship service my projector blue screens. The umbilical cord is vga from computer to projector. I can usually move my mouse around and it will reconnect. It's like my computer looses signal with the projector. Anybody else have this problem?

[waynehoskins]

It sounds like your computer is putting the display to sleep after so-long of idle. The adjustment would be in your power management, energy conservation, or screensaver control panels, something like that.

[cmchamp]

This may happen if either the screen saver, or the power management system preferences are set to engage during the length of time your system is on during a Sunday.
Check you Display settings if you haven't.
C

[mediaguru]

Thanks. Yes, I checked them. Everything is set to never.

[HKDJ]

I have the same problem,after about 45 minutes I have a Blue screen on the EIKI projector. My laptop display timers are all set to never while connected to power. I was unable to recover. My laptop display was fine the program was not locked up.. It does not happen when connected to a desktop monitor. It's my understanding that Blue screen means loss of input. I was having problems with my Graphics card driver but I downloaded new drivers. Maybe still a graphics card problem. But why does it not happen when connected to a Desktop Monitor? I am going to try a different Laptop tomorrow.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[daver2]

I notice this is your first post HKDJ - welcome to CMN!

If your projector does the same thing with a different laptop - check the projector itself for the presence of an active screensaver.

Dave

[Paris MkVI]

Do you see a pattern in the behavior? That is, is it consistently happening after a certain interval of time passes? Does it happen even though you are changing cues periodically, which would reset any screen savers or power savers?

Are you using only one projector? If two, are you looping from one projector to the second one? Is it happening only on one of the two or both?

I have seen intermittent "blue-screening" happen when the signal strength to the projector is on the ragged edge of acceptable. What is your cable run length, and is the cable homemade?

Sorry for two thousand questions! :~)

[Stever]

I agree with it is likely a cable length, age, quality issue

[Stever]

Thanks Dave!
I've been on and off your site for years. Since we do so many worship facilities I thought I would offer my 2 cents worth when it comes to projection

[HKDJ]

I think I have resolved the Blue screen. I had a Hard drive timeing out at 45
minutes. And a screen saver,I thought i had all those set to never but overlooked those two items. Thanks guys.

[Stever]

Good job, I should have thought of that one for you have seen it before. Glad you are up and running
Steve

[daver2]

Some dialogue boxes in Windows require you to click the [Apply] button before clicking the [OK] button after you have made a change. I have been caught out on a number of occasions myself by making a change, hitting [OK] and expecting the change to have taken place - IT HASN'T.

For major changes like screen and power savers, I would suggest rebooting the machine and then checking the settings again to make sure that the change is 'hard'.

You may also need to watch out for multiple 'configurations'. A laptop can be on batteries, connected to the mains, stand alone, networked etc. Each of these types of configurations has there own screen save timeout and power saving mode. If you disable the timeouts for one mode of operation - but then change the mode of operation of the PC to a different one - the timeouts may come back again! Revert to the original configuration - and the timeout goes away again!

Dave