why!!

ATIorNvidia · 12 Dec 2006 at 19:08

Ive had this really irritating problem with my PC for quite a while and now i cant be bothered to put up with it anymore.

Basically you turn on the computer, everything works fine, like it should do, and like it did before this started, then it freezes for about 2 seconds, the screen goes blank, then in about 5 seconds it comes back on, and my computer starts acting very very slow, ive tried several formats too, it doesnt work, can any1 help?

System specs AMD Sempron 2.8 Ghz
1.00GB Ram
160gb HDD
380W PSU

ATIorNvidia · 12 Dec 2006 at 20:01

LoadsaMoney said:
Could be PSU, what graphics card are you running, 380w is a bit low.

256mb DDR ATI Saphire 9250

But ivenever had thisproblem before, (a few months ago).

ATIorNvidia · 12 Dec 2006 at 20:25

how do i do that

ATIorNvidia · 12 Dec 2006 at 21:33

atm, i have to get my hands on a spare disk, ill do the mem test asap, however i download some other memtest from a website and left it running for around 30 mins and it came up with 0 errors

The blank/ slowdown happens not during boot, everything works fine after boot, its when u actually start using the computer, it happens after about 10-20 mins, if you were to leave the computer idle, this problem would not occur,

also this blank screen/slowdown does not happen when i am playing a full screen game.

edit: also when the black screen/slow down occurs i cannot play games or anything, and also i get errors about my GFX card and sometimes it asksme to set to 16 bit graphics which causes me to think its an old video card driver or something like that.

ATIorNvidia · 12 Dec 2006 at 22:53

also this slowdown/black screen doesnt occur on my 2nd partition

any help plz

ATIorNvidia · 13 Dec 2006 at 01:30

always had that GFX card yeah, or if i remember i have a 64 mb SD Ram on board GFX

also can i add, this started happening after i had a new monitor, so is this VGA related?