Hi,
Just wanted to get the knowledge of some of the gurus here, because I only had 5 minutes to test my computer this morning.
In brief I I noticed it was at a BSOD saying Physical Memory Dump. I had to reboot a couple of times, but essentially what it is doing now is frequently resetting the refresh rate(?--I mean that like when you reset the refresh rate, you monitor shuts off for a second), and the screen looks pixelated/odd colored pixels.
fyi, the videocard is a G3TI200 that is a couple years old, and it is a Dell 2.53ghz P4, 640 mb RAM, etc etc.
I am just trying to get ideas of what it could be, so that I can test them. My first instinct is the video card, but perhaps some of the memory went bad? It recently has been starting to act unstable, and I thought it perhaps related to the canon i470d usb printer I recently installed, but I didn't understand why that would cause problems. Now this morning it finally crapped the bed it seemed.
Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks.
Just wanted to get the knowledge of some of the gurus here, because I only had 5 minutes to test my computer this morning.
In brief I I noticed it was at a BSOD saying Physical Memory Dump. I had to reboot a couple of times, but essentially what it is doing now is frequently resetting the refresh rate(?--I mean that like when you reset the refresh rate, you monitor shuts off for a second), and the screen looks pixelated/odd colored pixels.
fyi, the videocard is a G3TI200 that is a couple years old, and it is a Dell 2.53ghz P4, 640 mb RAM, etc etc.
I am just trying to get ideas of what it could be, so that I can test them. My first instinct is the video card, but perhaps some of the memory went bad? It recently has been starting to act unstable, and I thought it perhaps related to the canon i470d usb printer I recently installed, but I didn't understand why that would cause problems. Now this morning it finally crapped the bed it seemed.
Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks.
