Screen goes black often

A few times during the day, as I'm working actively on spreadsheets or word documents, my screen will go just black.   He returned in 5-10 seconds that follow, but pretty annoying.    I setup two monitors and I was wondering if this could have something to do with it.

I disabled all my options that made no difference to energy saving.   It seems not be in hibernation, just a kind of refreshment.

Any ideas?

Try to update the graphic card (display) driver. If no update is available, uninstall the driver, reboot the PC, install the driver, restart the PC and then check.

Once this is done, follow the link for cause of hibernation:
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/920730
Note: Try the steps mentioned in the link above, that once the driver problem is solved. If the link above is to try first, reinstall/update of drivers may raise the question of the hibernation again.

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