Hi,
Thanks for viewing. Quite recently, my computer started to crash in an unusual way. When left for quite a while, it started to turn off the power to the monitor (the light goes from green to yellow) as if putting it into standby mode. However, it can't be turned back on at all. Moving the mouse or pressing the keyboard does not reactivate it. I tried checking the cpu temps, and they were ok. I tried reseating the ram, and no help. One other thing is that it still seems to be a temperature thing because once it has crashed, and been rebooted, it often keeps doing it more regularly - within 5 minutes (even in safe mode). Eventually, i decided it was probably a GFX card problem, so I took it out, and now i'm using the onboard GFX chip. That has solveed it, and it no longer crashes, but I want to use my GFX card to play games, and stuff. The fan on the card still works, and i wonder if the card might be upsetting the air flow over the mother board, as the end of the card sits very close (almost touching) the ram. Or perhaps its just the card itself overheating. It crashes regardless of what you are running, not made worse by playing games which use the card more heavily. Sometimes, its just running internet explorer and crashes.
I have AMD 3600+, AS Rock Motherboard, 2 x 512 sticks of DDR 400, GForce 4 ti 4200 128mb, Soundblaster Audigy 4. Win Xp SP2.
Thank for help.
Thanks for viewing. Quite recently, my computer started to crash in an unusual way. When left for quite a while, it started to turn off the power to the monitor (the light goes from green to yellow) as if putting it into standby mode. However, it can't be turned back on at all. Moving the mouse or pressing the keyboard does not reactivate it. I tried checking the cpu temps, and they were ok. I tried reseating the ram, and no help. One other thing is that it still seems to be a temperature thing because once it has crashed, and been rebooted, it often keeps doing it more regularly - within 5 minutes (even in safe mode). Eventually, i decided it was probably a GFX card problem, so I took it out, and now i'm using the onboard GFX chip. That has solveed it, and it no longer crashes, but I want to use my GFX card to play games, and stuff. The fan on the card still works, and i wonder if the card might be upsetting the air flow over the mother board, as the end of the card sits very close (almost touching) the ram. Or perhaps its just the card itself overheating. It crashes regardless of what you are running, not made worse by playing games which use the card more heavily. Sometimes, its just running internet explorer and crashes.
I have AMD 3600+, AS Rock Motherboard, 2 x 512 sticks of DDR 400, GForce 4 ti 4200 128mb, Soundblaster Audigy 4. Win Xp SP2.
Thank for help.
