# 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:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/screen-blanking-when-clicking-a-topic/356508/8 "2025-03-18T22:37:42Z")

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> [@manton](#):
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> One may chalk this up to the external monitor being the issue here. However, it only happens with my forum, and I wasn’t the only member with the issue. So, it could be some weird combination of hardware and software that we had in common.

Most likely this would be video card or video card software related. Have you tried switching video card drivers (update to beta or try stable), have you tried disabling HDR. Does this happen on all browsers or just on edge?

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