Simple fix for the USB monitor black screen of doom

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doesnt work me for but once!

i reinstall , reboot it works

upon next restart, screen is black again!

help!???

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Go on. We're all waiting.

Not to hate on you or anything, but why exactly did you feel it was necessary to post something like this. I understand there may be many people having this problem.... but seriously.... the solution is to reinstall the driver?

I'm no rocket scientist, but everyone should know to try that first and if they don't than a simple google will produce this same information. I like to read this blog but IMHO this kind of information belongs in a FAQ somewhere, not front page during WWDC week.

Recently I've been having the "*flashing blue* screen of death." MacBook Pro with external monitor hooked up; whenever I move the mouse, both screens flash blue. This is the same blue flash that used to happen just once when I first hooked up the monitor.

Now it happens repeatedly, rendering both screens unusable until I unplug the VGA cable for the external monitor from the MacBook Pro, at which point things return to normal.

Any ideas?

Searching around, I came across a DisplayLink FAQ that seemed to provide answers .

Well...I got the eVGA plus thing the other day...and I had that same problem with it...black screen that flickered a little...

I then went back to the web site and downloaded the beta version...installed and rebooted and it works great now...

it's really cool...only problem is it doesn’t work with Apple Cinema displays of 22", 23", or 30"...because the default resolution is too high for it...but I see from the Display Link site that there is a newer chip that should work with at least the 23"...thinking about getting the Leveno USB to DVI adapter...but it's $129...so I'm not ready to do that yet

but I love having a second monitor on my mac mini

"a simple reinstall & reboot clocks in at about a 3."

Now you know how it feels to be a PC user... all the time.

I also got a DisplayLink-powered adapter from IOGear, but seem everytime I reboot my machine, the adapter stop working, it only display a black screen (monitor seem got the signal), then I'll have to reinstall the driver again and reboot to get it working!

That mean now everytime I reboot my machine, I'll need to reinstall the driver and reboot again! Annoying, DisplayLink, please fix your driver, you've got a nice hardware product but the driver really sucks.

BTW, I never got my Energy Saving mode work on my LG monitor, it work when I connect to my mac directly, but once via the adapter, it just show black screen!

Awesome. Thanks Erica for doing the dirty work for this.

Now plz to be finding the fix for the Mini Display Port to Dual Link DVI problem.