Hi,
My three year old system has recently developed a problem where I get what appears to be random video card crashes. The screen either goes blue/red or my monitor just flickers and says no signal.
Whenever it does this I have to turn the PC off at the tower, however repeatedly doing this may have caused another problem. Now after it crashes and I turn it off, when I try to turn it back on the fans just make a very loud whirring sound with no display. Eventually after repeatedly turning it off and on again it will andomly work again for a few hours and run video games fine.
I'm replacing my system in 6 weeks but I need to just squeeze a bit more life out of it until then. By spec is:
OS: Vista Home Premium 32 bit
Processor: Intel Quad Core CPU 2.4 GHZ
Ram: 3070 MB
Video Card: 2 GB Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX
About six months ago I changed over the graphics card, however my old PSU couldn't support it, so I got a friends second hand one and put that in. Its worked fine for about 4.5 months though so I don't know if this has anything to do with it.
I know a bit about hardware but I'm not exactly an expert so I would appreciate any anywers in layman's terms please.
Also, I have already treid uninstalling/reinstalling my video drivers and cleaning the fans and vents of dust.
Thanks
My three year old system has recently developed a problem where I get what appears to be random video card crashes. The screen either goes blue/red or my monitor just flickers and says no signal.
Whenever it does this I have to turn the PC off at the tower, however repeatedly doing this may have caused another problem. Now after it crashes and I turn it off, when I try to turn it back on the fans just make a very loud whirring sound with no display. Eventually after repeatedly turning it off and on again it will andomly work again for a few hours and run video games fine.
I'm replacing my system in 6 weeks but I need to just squeeze a bit more life out of it until then. By spec is:
OS: Vista Home Premium 32 bit
Processor: Intel Quad Core CPU 2.4 GHZ
Ram: 3070 MB
Video Card: 2 GB Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX
About six months ago I changed over the graphics card, however my old PSU couldn't support it, so I got a friends second hand one and put that in. Its worked fine for about 4.5 months though so I don't know if this has anything to do with it.
I know a bit about hardware but I'm not exactly an expert so I would appreciate any anywers in layman's terms please.
Also, I have already treid uninstalling/reinstalling my video drivers and cleaning the fans and vents of dust.
Thanks