I'll try to keep this short but give as much detail as possible:
Ok, first for specs on my computer, see my sig. Jeez, I haven't posted here in a long time, so I'm not sure if that's still there.... Alright first a little background. Originally, I had Windows 2000 on this computer. I'd been playing games very sporadically for several months, but when I did I was having lockup problems. These lockups were usually pretty random (it seemed to me), sometimes, I'd play for 2-3 hours before it happened, sometimes only 5 minutes. Anyhow, I'm cruising right along in a game and then my monitor goes blank and the power light starts flashing (just like the power saving setting), but when i look at my computer, the HardDrive light is on and never flickers. Only way to reboot is to do a hard restart. So my first thought is video drivers are wrong, so I try 3 or 4 different ones but none help.
So then I upgrade to Windows XP hoping it would help but it didn't. I used XP for several months and decided to go back to 2000. So anyhow, the problem is still there and last night I was playing an Online RPG. Had been playing for about 4 hours or so and the last 2 of which were pretty intense on the processing I'm sure. Then all of a sudden my computer just freezes which it has never done before unless the screen goes blank, so I press the restart button and it restarts. I try the game again in the same spot I was the previous 2 hours and about 2 minutes into it this time it does it again. So I try shutting the computer down completely for a little while in case overheating was the problem (which by the way, only gaps around my computer are in front and back. In back I have about 10 inches of space for venting before the wall and the front is completely clear). So I power on my computer the next time and I can't even get the POST messages to come up. My monitor keeps flickering like the computer is still turned off and the hard drive light is doing the same thing it would before (always on). So I'm thinking Video issues. I pull the computer out, open the case to cool down (it seemed quite a bit waremer inside to me than usual). In about 30 minutes I decide to give it another shot and nothing comes up again. Let it sit overnight and tried again this morning and still nothing.
If anything I've tried here is just stupid on my part, please let me know so I don't repeat those actions....
Can anyone help PLEASE!?
Ok, first for specs on my computer, see my sig. Jeez, I haven't posted here in a long time, so I'm not sure if that's still there.... Alright first a little background. Originally, I had Windows 2000 on this computer. I'd been playing games very sporadically for several months, but when I did I was having lockup problems. These lockups were usually pretty random (it seemed to me), sometimes, I'd play for 2-3 hours before it happened, sometimes only 5 minutes. Anyhow, I'm cruising right along in a game and then my monitor goes blank and the power light starts flashing (just like the power saving setting), but when i look at my computer, the HardDrive light is on and never flickers. Only way to reboot is to do a hard restart. So my first thought is video drivers are wrong, so I try 3 or 4 different ones but none help.
So then I upgrade to Windows XP hoping it would help but it didn't. I used XP for several months and decided to go back to 2000. So anyhow, the problem is still there and last night I was playing an Online RPG. Had been playing for about 4 hours or so and the last 2 of which were pretty intense on the processing I'm sure. Then all of a sudden my computer just freezes which it has never done before unless the screen goes blank, so I press the restart button and it restarts. I try the game again in the same spot I was the previous 2 hours and about 2 minutes into it this time it does it again. So I try shutting the computer down completely for a little while in case overheating was the problem (which by the way, only gaps around my computer are in front and back. In back I have about 10 inches of space for venting before the wall and the front is completely clear). So I power on my computer the next time and I can't even get the POST messages to come up. My monitor keeps flickering like the computer is still turned off and the hard drive light is doing the same thing it would before (always on). So I'm thinking Video issues. I pull the computer out, open the case to cool down (it seemed quite a bit waremer inside to me than usual). In about 30 minutes I decide to give it another shot and nothing comes up again. Let it sit overnight and tried again this morning and still nothing.
If anything I've tried here is just stupid on my part, please let me know so I don't repeat those actions....
Can anyone help PLEASE!?
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