frequency over range? what is that?

[Stallion]

For the past few days I had been getting some bag lag and momentary freeze ups while playing CS. I had no idea what the problem was so I just thought I would start with some defraging and scan disc on my CS drive. I tried to start defrag and then got the BSoD and then a message that said "frequency over range". and the PC didn't want to reboot.

I went to bed and tried again this morning and after finally getting it to boot up I got a mesage of "unable to write to disc in drive C". I rebooted and the the BSoD and the message ot "frequency over range" was back.

I have continued to try and defrag but it hangs after about 10% completion on any drive. It is running now but I waswondering if someone knew what "frequency over range" means? I thought maybe after 3 years of loyal service my WD HDD took a dump on me. would that cause this?

Thanks for any tips or clues..

 

[flyfish]

This sounds kind of like a monitor problem. Try going to Video Card settings and turn your refresh rate down.

 

[Stallion]

I reloaded my drivers and I had it on adapter default so I set it to optimal. I only have about 8 choices...default, optimal or 60,70,72,75,85,100 or 120. I have a sylvania 19 inch F72 with a geforce GTSII 32mg. Should I leave it on optimal or would you recommed a different setting?