Howdy, For the past couple of weeks my computer has been dying on me. About a month ago while I was using it the screen started flashing on and off every three seconds for about 15 seconds, then the screen turned blue, whith no text, and then shut off. I tried restarting and everthing worked fine. Then about a week later it happend again, but when I tred restarting it went only to the screen with the Pentium Processor symbol, it didnt get to the POST screen. I turned it off and reset the bios and it worked fine again. Then a couple of days later it happend again, but reseting the bios didnt work. Sometimes when I try to start it, it dosent effect the monitor, at all, but the fans still start and the lights on the front of the case come on. If anyone has any comments or suggestions it would be greatly sppriciated.

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Well, today I messed with it awhile trying to start it up, and its working fine again! Go figure. I did a system restore, a disk clean up, and defragged it. Any one have and suggestions to keep it from dying on me again?

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Another basic I forgot. Do your MS Windows Updates on a regular basis.

Okay, thanks for all the help!