Re: screen flicking on and off

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my pc's been going completely screwy... all of a sudden, when it
boots up - on the Windows XP logo, there's distorted bits all over
the screen. when it finally gets to desktop, it looks ok but then
the monitor keeps just flicking on and off until it eventually gives
up the ghost altogether and I have to reboot the PC to get the screen
working again... however, it's NOT a physical fault with the monitor
(or monitor cable) as i replaced thrm with another one yet, exactly
the same thing happened!?
It's actually behaving at the moment but it's bound to start going
wrong again. has anyone else ever had a problem like this?

Yes and it was a physical fault with the display card.

Since I posted my original message, my PC got even worse and just kept
intermittently locking up for no apparent reason whatsoever. Safe Mode
worked fine. I've gone into Control Panel > System > Device Manager and
disabled my Nvidia card and the PC seems to be a lot more stable now. Oddly
enough though, when the PC boots up, the Windows XP logo screen has
distorted characters all over it. Anyone got any idea what that would be
happening?

Cheers

Daz


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