Re: System Prob or Virus?

From: Curt (no-no_at_notime.com)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:41:07 -0500

It could be a hardware issue. I once had a similar problem when my video
card was going bad. Check the event viewer for possible clues to your
problem. 

-- 
Curt.
"LMO" <lmo@nospamyahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:2t54jrF1rgbqdU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Hello all.
> Something strange just started happening to my XP Home system (AMDXP 
> 1.3G). All of a sudden it seem to just shut down. Power light stays on, 
> but screen goes black. Nothing I can do will revive it, other than shut 
> off the power, then cold reboot. Sometimes it comes right back up, 
> sometimes it blacks out immediately again and will not respond. I use 
> GoBack, so was able to go back to the morning, when all was fine, and it 
> worked for a couple days, but it just blacked out again. Cold booted right 
> up. and is working okay now...for now. I have NAV with latest updates, and 
> use Adaware regularly, but have found nothing with either prog.
> Could it be something insidious, or maybe a hardware problem? Any ideas? 
> System works fine when it's up and running otherwise.
> Thanks!
>

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