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PC screen goes black! ahh help please

PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:40 am
by Angilfyre79
Hi,
I have a Pentium IV 3.0Ghz 1mb cache 800 front side bus, Asus P5GD1-VMGL 915G motherboard, EnerMax ATX 460 watt power supply, 2 X 512mb (1024) ddr pc3200 low latency ram, Seagate Barracuda 80gb 8mb cache serial ata with ncq hard drive, Lite-on 52/32/52 DVD/CDRW optical drive, ATI Radeon X600 XT 128mb PCI Express graphics card, windows xp home with service pack 2,17" BenQ FP731 LCD monitor, 5.1 surround sound high definition, its an Alienware Area 51 desktop. Ok heres the problem that I am having. While in windows or during a game the screen on the monitor will flash black a few times beforewhat appears to be idle. I pressed the power button on the monitor when this happened and it came back on, but off again afteronly a few seconds. I use a screen resolution of 1024 x 768. It happens when playing any game after about 5 minutes. Computer
temperature at the time of the screen going black according to bios was motherboard 39 degrees C / 102 degrees F and the cpu was at 51 degrees C / 123 degrees F. Any help would be appreciated. Feel free to ask any questions regarding this issue. =)

PostPosted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:35 pm
by liljim

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:34 pm
by Angilfyre79
it happens while in windows also, not only in games. Could my video card, monitor or motherboard be on the verge of death? lol =)

PostPosted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:12 pm
by liljim