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| 556745 | 2007-06-06 11:20:00 | Over the past few weeks my PC has been doing some strange things . Firstly, the screen and mouse freezes . Then the screen goes black and blank . A second or two later the screen comes back to life . Software or virus’ have been discounted as I’ve put a new hard drive in the PC since this started and have a clean install of XP (with SP2) and it still does it! I've removed and reinstalled all hardware to ensure it's not being caused by a dodgy contact, but no luck . Neither with pulling all cables and swapping a few around . Sometimes a freeze will happen immediately after start up, hence heat is not the issue . Other times I’ll work for an hour before it happens . At other times the freezing happens almost back to back and usually ends in a system lock up requiring a reboot . When this happens the black screens after the BIOS screens have random letters and symbols over it . This makes me think it’s a video card issue, but alternately a CMOS battery going flat springs to mind . Any ideas please… . |
mcg (12374) | ||
| 556746 | 2007-06-06 11:29:00 | Leaky Capacitors?:confused: Could you post some more details of your hardware . E . g Motherboard make and model CPU type and speed Graphics card (basically all the core bits) |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 556747 | 2007-06-06 16:16:00 | alternately a CMOS battery going flat springs to mind nah..............never seen a flat battery do anything like that i'd pick a bad video card or video system if onboard......and yep maybe it's bad capacitors too...easy to check that... |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 556748 | 2007-06-07 06:02:00 | Motherboard: MSI K7N2 CPU: XP2000 Video Card: GeForce 4 Ti4200 Vivo The "blackouts" occurred immediately after loading XP and even before I put the nVidia drivers on, hence video card drivers can't be at fault . Leaky capacitors is a new one for me . . . . |
mcg (12374) | ||
| 556749 | 2007-06-07 06:37:00 | The "blackouts" occurred immediately after loading XP and even before I put the nVidia drivers on, hence video card drivers can't be at fault . drcspy said bad card, not bad driver for card . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 556750 | 2007-06-09 07:13:00 | I've checked all the capacotors on the mobo and vidoe cards and have found no visible sign of leakage or bulging. How else can the capacitors be checked? Next step is a new/different video card and I'll see what happens... |
mcg (12374) | ||
| 556751 | 2007-06-09 09:43:00 | Faulty card. Not faulty drivers. Not faulty capacitors. Try another graphics card. |
pctek (84) | ||
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