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Thread ID: 15323	2002-02-04 08:09:00	Video card problem or otherwise??	Guest (0)	Press F1

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34296	2002-02-04 08:09:00	At work we have recently started having problems with our monitor, which now appears to be caused by the video card going on the blink. I don't know anything about this kind of thing so would appreciate some advice :-) Firstly, last week the monitor sporadically turned yellow at infrequent intervals, then one day went blank. A temporary monitor replaced it which also went blank the next day for no reason. This morning the original monitor was used again and appeared to be working fine - no yellow screen. Mid-morning the screen froze whilst on screensaver (never done that before), and I could not do anything. Rebooted machine, but it froze halfway through the scandisk. Rebooted again, this time *nothing* would work - monitor blank, no hard drive activity. Left machine for half an hour to compose itself, turned it back on and it booted OK, scandisked OK and back to normal - for half an hour. Froze again. Repeated #4, machine again performed normally (although fractionally slower for a while). All was well when I left work but I am yet to hear if it stayed that way. Do we have a video card problem or could it be a something-else problem? Any ideas would be appreciated. Machine is nearly 4 years old, a Pentium 133?, 32mb ram, Windows 95. Thank you!!	Guest (0)
34297	2002-02-04 11:45:00	Hi Susan, Sounds like it could be a bit more than the video card here. Its not overheating by chance, sounds like one of those ones that you might want to throw in the direction of the IT guys. If it's fine when you first start but gets problematic after its been running for a while heat is where I would start looking first.	Guest (0)
34298	2002-02-04 19:54:00	Thanks for replying Tazzie. I was wondering about that, after reading of such things on here. Don't know why it should suddenly start overheating after nearly four years, but maybe something like, er, dust, may play a part? The office is a small, one-man band type of place, with just the one PC, so I don't sort of feel inclined to pop the lid off and start poking around myself, if you know what I mean. I've told the boss I think it needs a good clean, but whether that solves it remains to be seen. Real mystery, this one.	Guest (0)
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