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liamboyle06 · 25-07-2006, 12:26

hi all
as previous posted I had just formatted and reinstalled Xp on my machine.
The reason for this was that everytime I played a movie, game or anything like that, the display went completely black and PC locked up. I would have to manually power off and back on again.
at first I thought it might have been a problem with the OS, or softwre hence I flattened it, adn reinstalled everything agian.
Still issue persists.
I have the nvidia 5500 256MB card and problem happens with original drivers and latest drivers from Nvidia. anytime I now try to play a video, from my PC or web - PC just crashes with a black screen on monitor( as if in Standby mode). If using Skype video, the system really grinds to a halt, until i stop the video.
any body have any ideas?

The system was workign grand for the past 18 months and has only started to happen.

25-07-2006, 12:26	#1
liamboyle06 Inactive Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: St. Johnston, Co Donegal, Ireland Age: 46 Services: 3 Mobile Sky+ HD NWE 2MB Wireless Broadband XBOX 360 PS3 Wii Posts: 550	faulty gfx card??? hi all as previous posted I had just formatted and reinstalled Xp on my machine. The reason for this was that everytime I played a movie, game or anything like that, the display went completely black and PC locked up. I would have to manually power off and back on again. at first I thought it might have been a problem with the OS, or softwre hence I flattened it, adn reinstalled everything agian. Still issue persists. I have the nvidia 5500 256MB card and problem happens with original drivers and latest drivers from Nvidia. anytime I now try to play a video, from my PC or web - PC just crashes with a black screen on monitor( as if in Standby mode). If using Skype video, the system really grinds to a halt, until i stop the video. any body have any ideas? The system was workign grand for the past 18 months and has only started to happen.