Dual Screen Crash

[mattymaxx]

Ive been putting up with this for long enough!

My setup:

DFI Lanparty NF4 UltraD
Athlon x2 4800
Kingston DDR3200 2x1GB
xfx 7900GT 256mb extreme
4x 250GB sata hdds
1x 250gb ide hdd
650w psu
windows xp pro

I run dual screen on my system and use it for video editing mainly. But every so often i get a crash which si rather strange and i cant seem to see whats doing it each time its like its just completely random.

What happens is the computer will freeze, then 1 second later one of the screens will just go offline. Can be ether i cant see to see what causes it. I could be using photoshop, msn editing, browsing the net, i really dont know!

My XP is sp2 and fully up to date, no virus or anything for sure and the latest nvidia drivers too.

Its really annoying me now and i really want to get it sorted!

Please help!

Matt.

 

[NathanE]

Do you have all the latest drivers (especially chipset and graphics) installed?

I've had a similar problem in the past but with other types of graphics corruption (aswell as the monitors randomly turning on and off) and it turned out my Ti4200 had melted itself

 

[mattymaxx]

yep latest chipset and graphics drivers.

my 7900GT is only 6months old and its had a zalman cooler from new.

Matt.