Hi
my computer screen started going black a few weeks ago at regular intervals of around a minute and after the fifth or sixth "black out" it would restart and then continue to black out until it restarted again etc etc. Eventually, my comp stoped working all together. I spent $50 to get it repaired by someone who told me the motor had burned out. when it ocntinued to black out, i got it repaired by someone (another $70) who deleted everything on the hard drive. The computer works fine now but the display and scrolling is very slow.
earlier today, i tried to fix this by installing nvidia drivers (because i assumed my nvidia card was not activated). This probelm of blacking out started again.
so all along, the problem was my nvidia card and not a burnt motor etc.
My question is: if i replace my graphics card, will my screen start blacking out again?
at the moment, im using a vga card which is really crap.
thanks

uh, computers don't have 'motors'

Did you ever rule out the monitor and was the system "blacking out" at the repair shop too.

Eitherway $120, would have gotten you a replacemnt monitor or video card. And reformating for a "black out" issue is far fetched to me.

This reminds me of jam's homepage. :whistling:

I think the last driver nvidia had bugs cuz it happened to me, but when I updated them to the newest one, it stopped, and try another monitor and see if thats the problem and make sure the pins of the VGA/DVi cable are good

someone owned you like a little girl! For 120 dollars you can get a new Samsung/phillips FLAT SCREEN CRT! you paid someone so much money for doing nothing. BTW, what kind of computer/monitor do you have? and what video card? THAT WOULD HELP US HELP YOU

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