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Problems since using a 22 inch Dell Monitor

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Tanzanian

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Let me state that it worked fine beforehand with a 17 inch monitor.
Everything started with my new 22 inch monitor from DELL SP2208WFP

My Desktop was purchased from IbuyPower.com

Case: NZXT Trinity Power Supply: NZXT PF400 PSU
CPU: Athlon 64 3000+ [939] OEM
Motherboard: eVGA 133-K8-NF41 Nforce4-sli
Original Graphics Card: Geforce XFX 6200 Turbo Cache PCI-E graphic card
RAM: 512MB DDR
OS: WinXP Pro
System was working fine with no issues on a 17 inch monitor with DVI output.

Then I bought recently bought a Dell 22 inch monitor and have been having problems since then with my computer. It seems to freeze on me especially at higher resolutions or software like oovoo.com . It is a complete freeze, I have to shut down PC and restart to regain control. I cannot even pull up the task manager when it freezes.:frown:

So I did the following, none of which have been successful:
I upgraded the RAM to 4 GB DDR memory.
I upgrade the videocard to Nvidia (EVGA brand) Geforce 8400GS with 512MB DDR on-board memory.
I updated all the appropriated drivers for all the hardware
I ran registry cleaners to make sure it was not a software issue.

I am still running WinXP Pro on it.
I even connected the monitor to my Dell desktop to the monitor and no problems, and so I believe it is not the monitor. I played with different outputs - analog vs digital.

I am seriously wondering if my motherboard is the problem. I even put the card on different PCI E slots to try. My next step was to just get a new motherboard so as to avoid purchasing a new computer
 
Random freezing or only when using certain program/s? Check Windows event viewer for any system or application errors. Could be an app error in there related to the oovoo....haven't heard of that, but it could be buggy if its fairly new software...wouldn't think it would lock the whole system down though, soooo. Maybe try running memtest...I would test the original memory first. Anything overclocked? If so, load BIOS defaults. Run virus scan and also adware/malware scan.
 
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