So for the first time in ages and ages it froze on me the other week. I reboot and it won't boot into windows. Just before windows loads the screen goes blank. So after dicking around I reseat the video card and it works just fine again. Yesterday it did it to me three times. Again, the only thing that fixes the problem is reseating the video card and everything seems fine.

What the hell could the problem be? If it were the video card you wouldn't think it'd keep working after every reseating would you? I gave away my spare card so I can't pop anything else in and try it for a while, though I may have to do that. The video card is only a couple of months old. Radeon x1600 pro. Not awesome, but it gets the job done on a 4-5 year old PC.

Any advice?

1/24/2007 6:40:56 PM

Reinstall Windows or reinstall graphic drivers.

On a guess for diagnosis, if you look at the sys files as you boot (one of the options under F8), you'll probably see "mup.sys" as the last thing it is able to load. The next line item is "agp.sys", or whatever the equivalent PCI-e driver is. Meaning, the system is having difficulty loading the graphics drivers. If its able to load agp.sys, forget what I just said.

1/24/2007 8:50:58 PM

well i've reinstalled the drivers

i'll check out what you're talking about

i'm thinking i'll wind up reinstalling windows

[Edited on January 24, 2007 at 9:37 PM. Reason : ]

1/24/2007 9:37:43 PM

clean everything in the dishwasher

canned air?

1/25/2007 9:25:58 PM

yea, i cleaned the hell out of it

1/27/2007 2:20:12 PM

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"Reinstall Windows "

haha.. great first response

1/27/2007 3:13:52 PM

x1600 on a 4-5 yr old computer? Thought the x1600's were only made in pci-e and most motherboards boards built 4-5 years ago didn't have pci-e... mostly agp back then...

[Edited on January 28, 2007 at 5:12 PM. Reason : ]

1/28/2007 5:10:45 PM

^Nope

http://shopping.redorbit.com/product.php?productid=8130013&MMCF_froogle_feed&utm_id=1&utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Froogle+Feed

or just google "x1600 pro agp"

[Edited on January 28, 2007 at 5:38 PM. Reason : ]

1/28/2007 5:37:54 PM