# Screen blanking when clicking a topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/screen-blanking-when-clicking-a-topic/356508>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [March 9, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/screen-blanking-when-clicking-a-topic/356508 "2025-03-09T20:33:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![dsims](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dsims/32/485916_2.png) [@dsims](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dsims)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/screen-blanking-when-clicking-a-topic/356508/10 "2025-03-24T11:23:42Z")

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Your forum posts often have media players, could it be HDCP related? Does it happen on a plain topic without any embedded players?

The “screen roll” glitching sounds like the video in [this stackoverflow question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41513580/external-monitor-breaks-when-viewing-specific-content-in-browser), seemingly triggered by small dotted lines.

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