Computer Crashing

[Sauruman]

I got a P4 3.00 GHz , 120Gs Samsung hard disk, 1024 DDR, and a Radeon 9500 Pro, and my computer crashes a lot. Had a problem with the hard disk a few days ago, it broke, so i got a new one. Now the computer came crashed :| When i play crashes, when i go to webby screen goes all black, and doesn't happen anything (crash i suppose too). Anyone know how to solve this ?

 

[Boni]

Most crashes are down to video card drivers, check them first.

 

[Aragyn]

Had the same problem but running a Radeon 9600 pro, updated my gfx driver and it solved the problem.

http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

Forgot to ask, is your screen going black but you can still hear sounds?

 

[Influenza]

Try turning Fast Writes off and turning VPU recover off in Smartgart settings in the video options.

I had to set mine to AGP 4x aswell and it seemed to fix it (i was getting nearly the same symptoms as you ).
This was with a 9600XT though.

Worth a try anyway

 

[Sauruman]

Had the same problem but running a Radeon 9600 pro, updated my gfx driver and it solved the problem.

http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

Forgot to ask, is your screen going black but you can still hear sounds?

It goes black yes, but tbh, ain't sure about listening sounds. But the Screen ON/OFF light keeps blinking

 

[Sycho]

What brand PSU do you have?and how much watts? ones that come with built pcs usually are crap, might need to change it if this happens randomly all the time or not?

 

[Sauruman]

What brand PSU do you have?and how much watts? ones that come with built pcs usually are crap, might need to change it if this happens randomly all the time or not?

PSU u mean the thing that gives energy to the computer ? (dunno the word in english ) Its 500 Watts, its a pretty good one, cos i got a Thermaltake tower, that needs lots of power

 

[Sycho]

PSU u mean the thing that gives energy to the computer ? (dunno the word in english ) Its 500 Watts, its a pretty good one, cos i got a Thermaltake tower, that needs lots of power

Heh ok then it doesn't seem psu related, what about your monitor is that set to the right hertz level?(hz) if you set this too high your monitor will act very odd.Standard hz level for a 17-19 inch CRT monitor is around 75hz.Could even have a broken gfx card...but sadly i can't really tell unless i looked at the pc heh.Goodluck sorting it though.

 

[Xeanor]

Download memtest and run it: http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

(just download the .iso and burn it to a cd, select in BIOS to boot from CD first and it will start automatically and run automatically)

If that's ok, then either your motherboard or graphics card is faulty, and the only way to test which of the two is is by putting another graphics card in and see if the comp works, if it still doesnt work then your motherboard is faulty, if it works then just the graphics card is broken!