Thunderbolt Display is constantly blinking on OSX Mavericks

Hi folks,
I got:
- Thunderbolt Display,
- Macbook Air,
- Mac Mini.
I am pulling my hair since my Thunderbolt Display started to blink (to black screen for half a second) every minute or so. Sometimes every 5 minutes or few times a minute.
It started happening on OSX Mavericks. I thought  it could be only my laptop so I got Mac Mini (with OSX 10.8) from work and attached the display to it - not blinking at all. Then I upgraded OSX on Mini to Mavericks and guess what - now it's blinking with Mini too!
Can anyone help me to diagnose the problem. Is there any way to check system logs to see for display (or thunderbolt itself) errors that might be causing this?
I'm just unable to work because of this blinking and I'm frustrated as the display wasn't cheap :-/

Did you check this thread:
Thunderbolt Display USB Keyboard Problem Workaround
Maybe that helps...

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