Using TV as a monitor

[valve90210]

I am soon to be moving in with my girlfriend and want to put a spare computer of mine in the bedroom to use for playing mp3s, watching dvd's and if I can get a cheap tv tuner, watching TV.

I'd love to get a nice flat screen monitor to hook the computer up to which would be perfect for all those things however, money will be a little tight what with the costs of moving etc, so I was hoping to use the TV output of my graphics card (an old Geforce 2 MX) and use one of our 21"TV's for the display. I have managed to get it working as the monitor, and although it doesn't quite fill the screen it will suffice until such time when I can afford a monitor.

However I am having a bit of a problem. When the computer hasn't been used for a day or so, it refuses to boot first time, it gets part way through then hangs. If I hit the reset button it and tell it to boot normally when the failed boot menu comes up, it works fine. If I then shut it down and leave it for a bit, it'll boot up fine.

I've not used this computer very much for a while, not since I had a hard drive failure, which I replaced, and I reinstalled windows XP, so I don't know whether this is a problem with the computer itself, or if it's a problem caused by using the TV as the only display.

Has anyone suffered from similar problems, either when using a TV as a display or any other time, and if so any ideas what might be the problem???

Ta muchly

Valve

 

[valve90210]

Last night, having not used the computer for a week or so I decided to give it a whirl with it connected to my monitor. Exactly the same happened, it started to boot then did nothing. I rebooted and it went straight into windows. So the problem is not with using the TV as a monitor.

I did a quick bit of research into the problem and the only possible answer I found was that there might be a tiny crack in something like a memory module or something, which when cold is not making a connection and the computer won't boot, but then once a bit of heat built up, the part expands slightly thus closing the gap and making the connection.

Does this sound like a likely cause???

I know this is now not monitor related, so if anyone could point me in the direction of somewhere better to post the thread to, please do, any computer support forums or anything???

Thanks in advance.

Valve