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| Thread ID: 49416 | 2004-09-18 09:05:00 | Sudden 'Black' screens | tonymck (1930) | Press F1 |
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| 273465 | 2004-09-18 09:05:00 | Roughly between 1-5 times every day, and at no particluar time, my PC monitor goes black, or blank, nothing showing at all. Three other occurances periodically happen as well: 1) Sometimes the PC gets 'hung', and no blank screen (needs reboot) 2) Sometimes the monitor does not go blank but a message saying "Out of Frequency" happens. (lots of vertical lines before going blank) 3) After rebooting I often get a blue screen and the following text: The registry cannot load the HIVE (file): \system root\system32\config\software or its log or alternate. Beginning dump of ..... I have taken the machine to a repair shop, but they find nothing amiss, no virus or trojans or any spyware. I have also tried another monitor, to no avail. I run WINXP. Thanks in advance... From "Perplexed!" |
tonymck (1930) | ||
| 273466 | 2004-09-18 09:22:00 | It really sounds like a major (but intermittent) hardware failure. 1 The black screen sounds like the PC has "died" for all intents. 2 The "out of frequency" is the same, it means the PC has suddenly tried to deliver a scan frequency to the monitor that the monitor cannot handle, so it complains. The PC has reset at this stage I would suspect. 3 The error message also suggests that the hard drive has failed. This could be generated from a power supply failure/abberation, as could the above. Or from 1,569 other things. But the monitor is highly unlikley to be one of the causes. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 273467 | 2004-09-18 09:27:00 | Thanks for your help. Guess I should take it back to The PC Company for repairs!... yeah right. | tonymck (1930) | ||
| 273468 | 2004-09-18 10:46:00 | It is either the motherboard, or video card if you have a non-integrated one. If you have a separate video card swap it with a friends, but I really think the motherboard's the fault here. Nothing else could cause these blank screens etc. Buy a new mobo I think Tony. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 273469 | 2004-09-18 10:47:00 | OPh yeah, and that error will be that that file has been corrupted during one of these failures. | george12 (7) | ||
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