Gamerkid07
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Ok so for about 5-6 days my computer has been acting up. So this is the story. The computer was off when I came into the house (my room is across the yard in the guest house). I turned it on and it did the whole loading screen. Then it said something about how to start the windows. It gave me about 3-4 options. One of them was start Windows normally. So I hit enter and it starts to go to another load up screen. Once it's past that it sits in a black screen for about ten minutes. Then it goes to the desktop. But the desktop is blank and only shows the background picture. It takes about another 2-3 minutes to load up all the desktop icons and taskbar. Once all that is loaded up it runs just fine. Then once you start doing stuff such as getting on the Enternet and load up a website with a lot of things on it. It will go back into a black screen (not shutting off) and it will just sit. The computer it's self wont shut off nor will the monitor. Then the tower wont shut off. You have to unplug the power cord from it to get it to shut off. Then you have to do all the same things again to get it back to showing the desktop and icons. I found out today it's not just when you try and load up cetain things on the Enternet. I was doing some other things (Disk space cleanup) and it did it again. It seems to be when it has a lot to load up that it does it. I play a game on here and I can start to play that game but about a minute or so into playing it goes to the black screen. If the computer is on and no one is on it and it's just sitting their it will be fine. You can leave it on all day without it doing that. But once to many things start going on or a site with to much to load up, thats when it does that. Could it be the graphics card going out? Tomorrow I'm going to open up the tower and make sure everything is plugged in right and blow out all of the dust ( that could be the problem) and see if it helps any. The tower hasn't been cleaned for about 2 years. So I know a lot of dust has built up inside and might be slowing down the fans and causing it to over heat. Any other ideas are welcome. Thanks for any help you can give=-).
The computer is a Windows XP home Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2. It has 1.79GHz,512 MB of RAM.
The computer is a Windows XP home Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2. It has 1.79GHz,512 MB of RAM.