My home comp seems to be really messed up.
Here is what happens:
Screen goes black. Monitor loses signal. USB optical mouse loses power. Sound is this faint high pitch hiss (kind of sounds like when you hold the reset button in). Computer is still powered on but unresponsive. Only way I can tell to remedy the situation is to hard power down and power back up. Reset doesn't work.
I can't reproduce this situation on a whim. At first I thought it happened most while gaming, but now I think that may just be because I spend most of my time gaming. It still happens a most often when I'm gaming or using the computer, though. Most nights I can leave my computer on and it will still be up in the morning. Then when I use it that night it will lock four times. I guess it seems to happen in spurts...and there are few days when it doesn't lock up. This morning, for instance, was the worst. It was locked up when I woke up and locked up almost as soon as Windows booted three times in a row.
I've tried the following with no luck:
new video and sound card drivers, checked for cpu and video card overheating, re-seated video and sound cards, downloaded a ram tester and tested the ram, checked for gremlins, and cried myself to sleep
There have been no hardware changes to my comp and can't think of any major software changes.
The only other two options I can think of are tearing my comp apart and putting it back together or a reformat/reinstall of windows. If someone has something else to suggest or advice on which course I should take, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Here is what happens:
Screen goes black. Monitor loses signal. USB optical mouse loses power. Sound is this faint high pitch hiss (kind of sounds like when you hold the reset button in). Computer is still powered on but unresponsive. Only way I can tell to remedy the situation is to hard power down and power back up. Reset doesn't work.
I can't reproduce this situation on a whim. At first I thought it happened most while gaming, but now I think that may just be because I spend most of my time gaming. It still happens a most often when I'm gaming or using the computer, though. Most nights I can leave my computer on and it will still be up in the morning. Then when I use it that night it will lock four times. I guess it seems to happen in spurts...and there are few days when it doesn't lock up. This morning, for instance, was the worst. It was locked up when I woke up and locked up almost as soon as Windows booted three times in a row.
I've tried the following with no luck:
new video and sound card drivers, checked for cpu and video card overheating, re-seated video and sound cards, downloaded a ram tester and tested the ram, checked for gremlins, and cried myself to sleep
There have been no hardware changes to my comp and can't think of any major software changes.
The only other two options I can think of are tearing my comp apart and putting it back together or a reformat/reinstall of windows. If someone has something else to suggest or advice on which course I should take, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
