Hey guys, I posted back here along time ago with a video card issue. I solved that, and have since changed everything but my master hdd and my ide cables. Anyway, Lately I've been having some issues with my system. I'm not sure if its hardware or software. What happens is, my screen goes black, and the monitor LED blinks indicating that its not getting a signal (like it would if the pc is off or in standby) and it will stay like that till I hard reset the pc, a soft reboot doesnt wake it up. The only thing I have done recently was plug in my friends psp (which i had done b4) and it didnt begin to charge immediately, we had to reset the psp for it notice it had a connection. Other than that I've installed PSP Video 9. I uninstalled PSP Video 9. Didn't fix it. I've uninstalled every program I don't need. (leaving the games) Ive also run a scan with adaware, and got rid of what it found, and a scan with spybot, it got about 5 entires adaware didnt. and a virus scan with norton corporate 9 (defs as 09/07/05) and got nothing.

My specs are:

AMD Athlon 2500+
ECS KT600-A (Crappy i know, but When a NIB MSI, ASUS, and APEX mobo dont work, you get what you can)
BFG Nvidia 6800 OC 128mb
768 mb of pc 2700 ram (2 are kingston, one is patriot, both are same speed and timings)
Emprex DVD+/-RW Dual Layer 16x
Samsung 48x24x48 CD-RW
60 gb IDE Western Digital HDD ata 100 (could it this? i think its between 3-5 years old, i forgot when i bought it)
80 gb IDE Hitachi HDD ata 133
400 MGE dual fan psu with blue LED lights (120mm and 80mm fans)
USB "8-in4" card reader

4 intake fans, 1 side exaust fan, 2 rear fans. Vantec fan controller. CPU HSF is dual fan, one intake one exause with heatpipes... i forgot who makes it, its on frozencpu.com its made from aluminum and i used artic silver 5 to get it on there.

Everything else, sound, lan is onboard.

As far as when it happens, in or out of games... doesnt matter.

Anyway, im late for work, bye!

when in doubt, reinstall windows. Those pick up problems programs (alliteration, and say it 3 times fast) don't always get things, and my friend had a similar problem, and it went away after a reinstall. its a pain bt if it works it works

specbfast: Reinstalling Windows is always the LAST thing we recommend. We almost always figure out what causes the problem and how to fix it. Reinstalling Windows rarely solves anything, just postpones fixing it until it happens again and you get tired of reinstalling. In 5 years I don't think we've had to resort to reinstalling more than about 15 or 20 times. Not bad for the hundreds we've fixed...

I'm not sure what the problem is, maybe a better description might help. THe first thing I would recommend, from what I can determine, is check for heat or power supply problems and reseat the video card and RAM a few times to be sure they have good contact.

Open the case and run the computer with a small fan blowing inside, and clean out any dust and lint first. I use canned, compressed air and a camera or makeup brush. If it runs right, you have a heat problem. Power supply is a bit more difficult to troubleshoot, the best way I know of is to swap it for a known good one. Most home users don't have spare parts lying around I realize, but I have always tried to keep a good power supply handy for troubleshooting, at least ever since I got into working on these infernal confusers...

hi....i don't know this would help, but the we just newly fix it last night...
my friend have faced the same problem as you are last night...so he ask me for help...without doing any ckeckup i just format his pc cause he ask for...then we finish it..but the problem still occur.....the i check the connection of all hardware...then we found that the agp is not inserted tighly...we plug it off....and plug it on back...then the problem solved.....

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Hey, we'll i tried cleaning my case(includign the ram and agp connections), a new psu, 3 sets of ram, putting windows on a known good hdd cuz i thought my priamry was failing(it wasnt, so i switched back) and whatever i did at one point stoped my blackscreens and now i get BSODs. BUT i figured out waht it was, now that my video card and fans run on one rail and my drives on antoher, so that my psu could handle the load better, it stabilized the pc. Turns out its not the pcs fault (i hope im right). I belive it is the A/C unit and Dryer here in the house, everytime they turn on or off they cause the lights to dim and brighten for a sec respectively. So basically the powergrid in the house is a mess of loads and spikes. I deduce this becasue last night i did not get one single BSOD, yet today my grandma has been using the dryer (the ac doesnt really affect it i think) and ive gotten 2-3 bsods. the last one was EXACTLY at the moment she turned off the dryer.
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So in short i think i need a UPS im gonna buy one off newegg and a new PSU cuz the one i get in here has slightly dirty power cuz some wires accidently got cut that went to the mobo and were only taped back. however it rusn stable with no issues due to that so it has to be the powergrid.

Anway, ill let you guys know how it does when the UPS and PSU arrive.


BTW: is this possible? i hope its not a crackpot theory. :D L8R