Black Program Monitor

I’m a novice Premiere Pro CC user. I just encountered a problem with my program monitor. While editing and moving clips into multiple video tracks suddenly the program monitor goes black and will not show and clips in the timeline. If I save the project and reopen, the program monitor works for a short time and then goes black again. HELP PLEASE!!! Dan Folkman.
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What is your exact brand/model graphics adapter (ATI or nVidia or ???)
What is your exact graphics adapter driver version?
Have you gone to the vendor web site to check for a newer driver?
For Windows, do NOT rely on Windows Update to have current driver information
-you need to go direct to the vendor web site and check updates for yourself
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Exactly what is INSIDE the video you are editing?
Codec & Format information, with 2 links inside for you to read http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1270588
Report back with the codec details of your file, use the programs below... A screen shot works well to SHOW people what you are doing
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/592070?tstart=30 for screen shot instructions
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