Screen goes black playing YouTube videos

I am using Google Chrome web browser with version 11.1.102.55 Adobe flash player on a Windows Vista 64-bit operating system.  This problem also occurs in Internet Explorer.  When I play a Youtube video on my PC most of the time after a few seconds of play my monitor goes completely black.  I have a TV near my computer that I have set up as a secondary monitor.  It does not go black, but continues to look fine.  If I turn the power off my monitor and turn it back on, the screen comes back.  Though if the video is still playing it quickly goes off again.  If I can manage to pause the video before it goes off again, it continues to work.  My monitor is a ViewSonic VX2235 and I am using its specific video driver.  I have the latest update of that.  My video card is a ATI Radeon HD 3800 series.  My TV is using just the standard Generic PnP Monitor driver.  I have tried uninstalling the ViewSonic driver and using the Generic PnP monitor for the monitor, but I still get the problem.  I have also unchecked "Enable hardware acceleration" in the Adobe Flash Player Settings.
Any suggestions to get this to stop happening are appreciated.

That's odd.  Have you tried hooking up your TV as the primary (or only) monitor to see if it's also put into "sleep" mode?
Chris

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