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screen goes black....

LastIrishMonkey · 2006-09-09 10:37:05

Pc is Dell Dimension 5150 3.00ghz 512mb ram and 70gig hd okay its loading..... finished loading all my icons are on the desktop and task bar is loading its icons it gets 2 steam and msn messenger suddenly black screen and then its starts to go back to normal, i can drag the box over the icons to high light em even when its…

09-09-2006 10:37am

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Pc is Dell Dimension 5150 3.00ghz 512mb ram and 70gig hd

okay its loading..... finished loading all my icons are on the desktop and task bar is loading its icons it gets 2 steam and msn messenger suddenly black screen and then its starts to go back to normal, i can drag the box over the icons to high light em even when its black dunno the rest of the screen is still black.

what it could be tis a wierd 1 i ran virus scan and adware and all that :mad:

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#2 10-09-2006 12:28am

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My laptop used do something similar, every time I started it the screen would flicker. It turned out to be the ATI display drivers. May not be the same in your case but might be worth a look.

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#3 10-09-2006 12:51am

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What video card have you got?

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#4 13-09-2006 5:06pm

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would u believe its an ati x600 256mem

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