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Screen Goes Black

Discussion in 'Overclocking, Cooling and Modding' started by garysyoung, Apr 16, 2007.

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  1. garysyoung Newcomer, in training

    I am having trouble with my monitor going black at random and staying that way for only a few seconds. It seems it does it more often when I am running multimedia programs. Below is some info on my computer. I think it may be a cooling problem, but then what do I know. Any thoughts as to why?

    Computer:
    Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
    OS Service Pack Service Pack 4
    DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)


    Motherboard:
    CPU Type AMD Duron, 800 MHz (8 x 100)
    Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-7ZX(-B)
    Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8363(A) Apollo KT133(A)
    System Memory 256 MB (PC133 SDRAM)
    BIOS Type AMI (11/14/00)
    Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
    Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
    Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

    Display:
    Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 (128 MB)
    3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000
    Monitor Plug and Play Monitor [NoDB] (F6EZ49226979U)

    Multimedia:
    Audio Adapter VIA AC'97 Audio Controller [H]
    garysyoung, Apr 16, 2007
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  2. Tedster Techspot old timer.....

    such a slow CPU may have a hard time keeping up with software.
    Tedster, Apr 26, 2007
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