Why does my system dim and go grey sometimes?

[mark Pyles]

Hi Anthony:

Is there no way to fix that? Is that common? Thanks.

Mark

Anthony M. Rasat wrote:
> mark Pyles wrote:
>   
>> wanted to know why is it that sometimes whenever I am reviewing a 
>>     
> webpage or email or anything else that my screen seemss to dim and go 
> grey?
>
> I noticed that behavior indicates that active application is having a timeout. The cause maybe vary, from IO (harddisk is so busy that requests from application had to be timed out) to connection loss (say, SMB server suddenly gone).
>
> And in your case, while browsing, I would say maybe a javascript causing problem. It happens to me from time to time too. Usually what I did was leave it alone until it was uncomfortably long time.
>
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