Hi Guy's
Iv'e been having a lot of trouble with my computer the last few months. I though I'd solved the prob. but it's back...So before I go looking for my 10 lb sledge-hammer, I though I'd perhaps ask one of you puter wizz's to kindly help if you can..
The symptom's: I can be doing something on the puter ie: looking at a webpage usually, seeing I'm nearly always on-line,(but I dont have to be on-line for this to happen!) All of a sudden, the monitor screen will go blank....sometimes with different colored VERtical lines....There ALWAYS vertical lines IF I get them. To explain what I mean further here...the last time it happened (10 mins ago) I was in iceinspace typing a reply to a thread (such as this box I'm typing in right now) when the monitor screen went 'blank'.... the colour of the blank screen was the same light blue colour as THIS box I'm typing in with thin vertical black lines about 50mm apart. Iv'e had this happen in other sites as well, where the box might have a red background, & if I get the blank screen...the colour of the screen will be RED! It seems to be a random event weather I get the vertical lines or not. That's GOT to be some kind of clue, that watever the colour the back-ground is coincides with the color of the blank screen!?
All the experts told me it was the monitor....until I tell them the computer stops responding to all commands from the keyboard when the screen go's blank! Iv'e tried ctrl + alt + delete....no response, you can hit every key till dooms day, it wont matter...no response! That effectively cancels out the monitor, doesn't it??
I was at my wits end 3 mths ago....I had it figured to be a hard-ware fault somewhere in the box...I have 2 sticks of RAM installed....I tried taking one out & tested it for a week. Still had the dreaded SCREEN.....swapped the sticks of RAM over....tested it for a week.....NO SCREEN! It seemed to have fixed it! The stick of RAM was on it's way out. Or so I thought. Iv'e been running with one stick ever sinse...BUT!! In that time, Iv'e got the screen 6 or 7 times....NOT as often as I used to before taking that stick out.....But it's STILL doing it!!
just not as regularly *sigh* So the prob is still there.
I know a lot of hacking/tweaking 'secret's' lol & Iv'e tried quite a few to try to get this prob to go away...I'm over-clocking the ol' girl too....but that's not the cause. I had this screen trouble before I started over-clocking...Got the 2 IDE device's activated...got the extra 30meg by nominating the puter as a server..swap file bigger than default, got the RAM de-fragger running, Cache cleaned every night, de-frag C: once a week....blah blah....nothing makes any difference! Obviously not a system problem as such, but a hard-ware problem?
Anyone seen this,or heard of it...??
Pentium 3 750Mhz genuineIntel X 86 family 6 model 8 stepping 6
248 MB RAM (was 512 I think, before turfing the other stick)
19459MB on C: (FAT32) Generally hovers around 65-70% system resources free.
Advice/help/comments MUCHLY appreciated!
Dont suggest a really sharp 5LB axe.....cos' it's nicely sharpened, & ready for some ACTION!!
