PC won't

[Thomas Junior]

Hi,

The boss's computer is having trouble. Whenever it sleeps to a blank
screen, it won't wake up. Not only that, but it often has this strange
pixelation around the mouse pointer, changing colors, choppy look. He
also complained that whenever he ran his CAD program and his photo
program at the same time, the computer would lock up and crash.

Found no viruses or spyware. No new software installed.

This computer has run for almost 3 years without a single crash, so I
first suspected the video card. Changed from a Diamond Stealth AGP to
an ATI Rage 128 PCI and told him to try it out. I also disabled all
power conservation settings in the BIOS. A couple hours later he said
the problem happened again.

Anybody have any ideas? My next guess is RAM, but I'm worried that the
motherboard is having the problem.

Thanks in advance!
Tom

 

[John]

Hi,

The boss's computer is having trouble. Whenever it sleeps to a blank
screen, it won't wake up. Not only that, but it often has this strange
pixelation around the mouse pointer, changing colors, choppy look. He
also complained that whenever he ran his CAD program and his photo
program at the same time, the computer would lock up and crash.

Found no viruses or spyware. No new software installed.

This computer has run for almost 3 years without a single crash, so I
first suspected the video card. Changed from a Diamond Stealth AGP to
an ATI Rage 128 PCI and told him to try it out. I also disabled all
power conservation settings in the BIOS. A couple hours later he said
the problem happened again.

Anybody have any ideas? My next guess is RAM, but I'm worried that the
motherboard is having the problem.

Thanks in advance!
Tom

Well you could run memtest86 obviously the free program. if that
doesnt come up with anything, you could look at the power supply etc
and start swapping more parts out and/or doing a clean install.